awkward needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
awkward is the highest-scoring word from awkward, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in awkward — and it is awkward itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling awkward produces exactly one five-letter word: award. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in awkward and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
awkward 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 awkward carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for awkward. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
awkward is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing awkward unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is awkward, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from awkward 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 awkward produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.