openhanded needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
openhanded is the highest-scoring word from openhanded, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in openhanded — and it is openhanded itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in openhanded. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dopehead and headpond, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in openhanded produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is headend, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling openhanded turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend, handed, headed, and opened. For points, the strongest plays are daphne, heaped, and phoned — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in openhanded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended, hoped, and phone. For points, the strongest plays are ephod and hoped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in openhanded produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dead, deed, deep, done, hand, head, and hope. For points, the strongest plays are epha, heap, hope, opah, pheo, and phon — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling openhanded turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and, ape, dad, end, had, and hen. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, hop, pah, peh, pho, and poh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in openhanded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, do, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
openhanded 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 one sense for openhanded. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
openhanded is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing openhanded unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is openhanded, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from openhanded 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 openhanded produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.