Hidden inside drawees sit drawees and resawed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drawees and resawed tie for the highest Scrabble score from drawees at 11 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in drawees: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drawees 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 drawees and resawed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drawees turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erased. For points, the strongest plays are dewars, drawee, reweds, and waders — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drawees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears and deers. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including draws, sewed and weeds.
Rearranging the letters in drawees produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and deer. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including draw, drew and weed.
Unscrambling drawees turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and ear. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drawees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in drawees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drawees 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.
drawees 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 drawees carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for drawees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
drawees is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drawees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drawees and resawed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drawees 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 drawees produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.