Hidden inside breadthwise sit breadthwise and whitebeards, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1220 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
breadthwise and whitebeards tie for the highest Scrabble score from breadthwise at 20 points. The top 10 of 1220 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in breadthwise: one comes from rearranging its letters, and breadthwise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are breadthwise and whitebeards, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling breadthwise produces exactly one ten-letter word: whitebeard. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling breadthwise turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is shewbread, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in breadthwise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breathed, breathes and diabetes. For points, the strongest play is dweebish — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in breadthwise produces 149 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breathe, breaths and dearest. For points, the strongest play is beshrew — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling breadthwise turns up 229 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, bathed and bathes. For points, 9 words tie at 13 points, including washed, wished and shawed.
There are 340 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in breadthwise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and baits. For points, the strongest plays are whids, width, hawed, and hewed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in breadthwise produces 287 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and arts. For points, the strongest play is whid — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling breadthwise turns up 129 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are haw, hew, and wha — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in breadthwise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and as. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ah, aw and eh.
breadthwise 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 breadthwise carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for breadthwise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
breadthwise is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing breadthwise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are breadthwise and whitebeards, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from breadthwise 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 breadthwise produce 1220 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 44 eight-letter words, 149 seven-letter words, 229 six-letter words, 340 five-letter words, 287 four-letter words, 129 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.