Hidden inside dwindles sit dwindles and swindled, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dwindles and swindled tie for the highest Scrabble score from dwindles at 13 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in dwindles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dwindles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dwindles and swindled, 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 dwindles produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dwindle, swidden, widdles, and windled, 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 dwindles turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with winded. For points, the strongest plays are dwined, widdle, wilded, and winded — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dwindles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dined, dines, lends, lined, lines, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are dwine, welds, wends, widen, wides, wield, wilds, wiled, winds, wined, and wised — 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 dwindles produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, died, dies, dine, ends, lend, and lids. For points, the strongest plays are dews, lewd, weds, weld, wend, wide, wild, and wind — 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 dwindles turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, end, ids, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are dew and wed — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dwindles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, is, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in dwindles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dwindles 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.
dwindles 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 one sense for dwindles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dwindles is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dwindles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dwindles and swindled, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dwindles 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 dwindles produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.