Hidden inside drawings sit drawings and swarding, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drawings and swarding tie for the highest Scrabble score from drawings at 13 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in drawings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drawings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawings. For points, the strongest plays are drawings and swarding — each 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 drawings produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawing. For points, the strongest plays are drawing and warding — each 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 drawings turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, drains, grands, and grinds. For points, the strongest plays are dawing and wading — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drawings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawns, drags, drain, drawn, draws, gains, and grand. For points, the strongest plays are awing, dawns, diwan, drawn, draws, gnaws, swang, sward, swing, wadis, wands, wards, wigan, winds, wings, wrang, and wring — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in drawings produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, dawn, digs, drag, draw, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are dawn, daws, draw, gnaw, swag, swig, wadi, wads, wags, wand, ward, wigs, wind, and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drawings turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, dig, gas, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are daw, wad, wag, and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drawings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, aw, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest play is aw — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in drawings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
drawings 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for drawings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
drawings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drawings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drawings and swarding, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drawings 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 drawings produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.