Hidden inside awakeners sit awakeners and reawakens, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 269 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
awakeners and reawakens tie for the highest Scrabble score from awakeners at 16 points. The top 10 of 269 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in awakeners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and awakeners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awakeners and reawakens, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in awakeners. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awakener, reawaken, reawakes and 2 more, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in awakeners produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sneaker. For points, 8 words tie at 14 points, including awakens, reawake and rewaken.
Unscrambling awakeners turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer and weaker. For points, 12 words tie at 13 points, including weaker, awaken and awakes.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in awakeners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, awake and aware. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including awake, wakes and weeks.
Rearranging the letters in awakeners produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, earn and ears. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including knew, wake and weak.
Unscrambling awakeners turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask and ear. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and eek.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in awakeners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and aw. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in awakeners and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
awakeners 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.
awakeners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing awakeners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are awakeners and reawakens, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from awakeners 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 awakeners produce 269 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.