sledgehammer needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 736 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sledgehammer is the highest-scoring word from sledgehammer, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 736 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in sledgehammer — and it is sledgehammer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sledgehammer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with released. For points, the strongest plays are hammered and rehemmed — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sledgehammer produces 61 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealers, degrees, emerged, emerges, hammers, leaders, and release. For points, the strongest play is shammed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sledgehammer turns up 153 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees, dealer, degree, dreams, emerge, and erased. For points, the strongest plays are hammed and hemmed — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 198 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sledgehammer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eased, edges, erase, games, geese, germs, and grade. For points, the strongest plays are gemma, haems, halms, hames, harem, harms, hedge, helms, hemal, hemes, herma, herms, almeh, marsh, rehem, rheme, and shame — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sledgehammer produces 193 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, ahem, argh, arms, dare, and deal. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, halm, hame, hams, harm, helm, heme, hems, herm, mash, mesh, and sham — 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 sledgehammer turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, are, arm, ash, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sledgehammer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, am, as, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in sledgehammer plus one additional letter.
sledgehammer 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for sledgehammer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
sledgehammer is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sledgehammer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sledgehammer, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sledgehammer 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 sledgehammer produce 736 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 13 eight-letter words, 61 seven-letter words, 153 six-letter words, 198 five-letter words, 193 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.