Hidden inside eastward sit eastward and radwaste, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eastward and radwaste tie for the highest Scrabble score from eastward at 12 points. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in eastward: one comes from rearranging its letters, and eastward 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 eastward and radwaste, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in eastward produces 4 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 adwares, seaward, steward, and strawed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling eastward turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with awards, rawest and stared. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including awards, wasted and adware.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eastward. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, award and aware. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including award, draws and dawts.
Rearranging the letters in eastward produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arts and dare. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including draw, drew and awed.
Unscrambling eastward turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eastward. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in eastward plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in eastward 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.
eastward 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 eastward carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for eastward. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
eastward is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eastward unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eastward and radwaste, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eastward 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 eastward produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.