edelweiss needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
edelweiss is the highest-scoring word from edelweiss, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in edelweiss — and it is edelweiss itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling edelweiss produces exactly one eight-letter word: weedless. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in edelweiss produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dewless, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling edelweiss turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slides. For points, the strongest plays are slewed, swedes, wedels, wields, and wissed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edelweiss. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, seeds, sewed, sides, slide, and weeds. For points, the strongest plays are sewed, swede, wedel, weeds, welds, wides, wield, wilds, wiled, 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 edelweiss produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, else, less, lids, lied, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are dews, lewd, weds, weed, weld, wide, and wild — 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 edelweiss turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, lie, see, and sew. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edelweiss. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in edelweiss plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in edelweiss and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
edelweiss 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 1-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 edelweiss. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
edelweiss is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing edelweiss unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is edelweiss, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from edelweiss 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 edelweiss produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.