Unscramble HEADWORDS and you have 283 words, HEADWORDS itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from HEADWORDS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 8, 10 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 29 with 2.
Among 60 6-letter words you get when you unscramble HEADWORDS, the top score is 13, reached by 8. SHARED, SHOWED and SHOWER are the familiar ones.
DHOWS, HAWED and SHOWD share the top score of 12 among the 5-letter words from HEADWORDS. HEARD, HEADS and SWORD are the ones most people know.
DHOW tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble HEADWORDS at 11 points; next come HAWS and HEWS on 10. SHOW, HARD and HEAD will look familiar.
60 3-letter words from HEADWORDS; 5 of them share the top score of 9. WAS, HAS and WHO are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of HEADWORDS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with HE · ending in DS · all 9-letter words
What HEADWORDS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept HEADWORDS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEADWORDS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 283) | 229 | 283 | 212 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
54 of the 283 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SHOWDED, SHROWED, HAWSED, SHROWD, HOWRES, SHARDED, SHOWD, SWORDED, WHARES, HOWRE, SHROW, WERSH and 42 more. 17 of the 283 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DEHORS, SHWA, DOSHA, ODAHS, AHED, DOHS, DOSH, ODAH, DOH, HAOS, AHS, HOS and 5 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of HEADWORDS and one more.