Hidden inside wounds sit swound and wounds, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WONDUS, SUDWON or WUDNOS and you get the same 6 letters as WOUNDS: so the words from WOUNDS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
swound and wounds tie for the highest Scrabble score from wounds at 10 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in wounds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wounds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wounds. For points, the strongest plays are swound and wounds — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wounds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sound and wound. For points, the strongest plays are downs and wound — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wounds produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with down, owns, snow, and undo. For points, the strongest plays are down and dows — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wounds turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with now, own and son. For points, the strongest plays are dow and wud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wounds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in wounds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wounds and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
wounds is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for wounds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
wounds is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wounds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swound and wounds, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wounds earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in wounds produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.