women needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ENMOW, NWOEM or ONWME and you get the same 5 letters as WOMEN: so the words from WOMEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
women is the highest-scoring word from women, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in women — and it is women itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in women produces 6 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meow and mown, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling women turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, new and now. For points, the strongest plays are mew and mow — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in women. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, me and no. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in women and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
women 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.
women is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing women unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is women, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from women 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 women produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 6 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.