Hidden inside unearths sit haunters, unearths, and urethans, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
haunters, unearths, and urethans tie for the highest Scrabble score from unearths at 11 points. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in unearths: two come from rearranging its letters, and unearths itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are haunters, unearths, and urethans, 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 unearths produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hunters and natures. For points, the strongest plays are anthers, haunter, hunters, shunter, thenars, unearth, and urethan — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unearths turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with haunts, hearts, hunter, and nature. For points, the strongest plays are anther, earths, hasten, haters, haunts, hausen, hauter, hearts, hunter, snathe, thanes, thenar, and unhats — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, earns, earth, hates, haunt, hears, and heart. For points, the strongest plays are ashen, earth, haets, hanse, hants, hares, harts, haste, hater, hates, haunt, haute, hears, heart, heats, hents, herns, hunts, hurst, hurts, neath, rathe, rheas, ruths, share, sharn, shart, shear, shent, shunt, shura, shute, snath, surah, tahrs, thane, thens, trash, unhat, and usher — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in unearths produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, arts, aunt, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are eath, eths, haen, haes, haet, hant, hare, hart, hast, hate, hats, haut, hear, heat, hens, hent, hern, hers, hest, hets, hues, huns, hunt, hurt, huts, rash, rath, resh, rhea, rhus, rush, ruth, shat, shea, shen, shun, shut, tahr, thae, than, then, thru, thus, and tush — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unearths turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ash, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, hen, her, hes, het, hue, hun, hut, nah, nth, rah, sha, she, and the — each worth 6 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 unearths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, sh, and uh — 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 unearths and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
unearths 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 two senses for unearths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
unearths is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unearths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are haunters, unearths, and urethans, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unearths 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 unearths produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.