Hidden inside answer sit answer and resawn, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
answer and resawn tie for the highest Scrabble score from answer at 9 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in answer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and answer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer. For points, the strongest plays are answer and resawn — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, saner, swear, warns, and wears. For points, the strongest plays are resaw, rewan, sawer, sewan, sewar, sware, swear, wanes, wares, warns, weans, wears, and wrens — 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 answer produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears, eras, near, news, sane, and sewn. For points, the strongest plays are anew, awes, awns, news, raws, sawn, sewn, snaw, swan, waes, wane, wans, ware, warn, wars, wean, wear, wens, and wren — 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 answer turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, new, ran, raw, and saw. For points, the strongest plays are awe, awn, naw, new, raw, saw, sew, wae, wan, war, was, and wen — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — 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 answer and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
answer 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 fifteen senses for answer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
answer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing answer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are answer and resawn, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from answer 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 answer produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.