awaits needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
awaits is the highest-scoring word from awaits, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in awaits — and it is awaits itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in awaits. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: await, waist, and waits, worth 8 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in awaits produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wait. For points, the strongest plays are staw, swat, taws, twas, wait, wast, wats, wist, and wits — 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 awaits turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, sat, saw, sit, and was. For points, the strongest plays are awa, saw, taw, twa, was, wat, wis, and wit — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in awaits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is aw — 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 awaits 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.
awaits 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in awaits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for awaits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
awaits is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing awaits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is awaits, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from awaits 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 awaits produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.