Hidden inside chewer sit chewer and rechew, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chewer and rechew tie for the highest Scrabble score from chewer at 14 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in chewer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chewer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chewer and rechew, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chewer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer and where. For points, the strongest plays are hewer and where — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chewer produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chew, crew, here, were, and whee. For points, the strongest play is chew — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chewer turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her. For points, the strongest play is hew — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chewer. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, ew, he, and we, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in chewer 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.
chewer 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 chewer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for chewer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chewer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chewer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chewer and rechew, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chewer 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 chewer produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.