wanderers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 340 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wanderers is the highest-scoring word from wanderers, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 340 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in wanderers — and it is wanderers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wanderers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answered. For points, the strongest plays are answered, redwares, and wanderer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wanderers produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawers, errands, rewards, and wanders. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including drawers, rewards and wanders.
Unscrambling wanderers turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer, dearer and drawer. For points, 17 words tie at 10 points, including drawer, reward and wander.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wanderers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dawns and dears. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including dawns, drawn and draws.
Rearranging the letters in wanderers produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dawn and dear. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including dawn, draw and drew.
Unscrambling wanderers turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wanderers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in wanderers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wanderers 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.
wanderers 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 two senses for wanderers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
wanderers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wanderers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is wanderers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from wanderers 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 wanderers produce 340 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.