Hidden inside deaths sit deaths and hasted, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deaths and hasted tie for the highest Scrabble score from deaths at 10 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in deaths: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deaths itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaths. For points, the strongest plays are deaths and hasted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deaths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, death, hated, hates, heads, and heats. For points, the strongest plays are ashed, deash, death, hades, hadst, hated, heads, sadhe, and shade — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deaths produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, east, eats, hate, hats, head, and heat. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, dahs, dash, edhs, hade, haed, head, shad, and shed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deaths turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ash, ate, eat, had, has, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deaths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in deaths 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.
deaths 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for deaths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
deaths is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deaths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deaths and hasted, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deaths 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 deaths produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.