Hidden inside chewers sit chewers and rechews, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chewers and rechews tie for the highest Scrabble score from chewers at 15 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in chewers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chewers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chewers and rechews, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chewers turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers. For points, the strongest plays are chewer, eschew, 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chewers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chews, crews, screw, sewer, and where. For points, the strongest play is chews — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chewers produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chew, crew, here, hers, 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 chewers turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, see, sew, and she. 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chewers. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, ew, he, sh, 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 chewers 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.
chewers 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 chewers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for chewers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chewers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chewers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chewers and rechews, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chewers 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 chewers produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.