Hidden inside hewing sit hewing and whinge, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hewing and whinge tie for the highest Scrabble score from hewing at 13 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hewing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hewing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hewing and whinge, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hewing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weigh and whine. For points, the strongest play is weigh — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hewing produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with when, wine, and wing. For points, the strongest play is whig — 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 hewing turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, new, wig, and win. For points, the strongest play is hew — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hewing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, he, hi, in, and we. For points, the strongest plays are eh, ew, he, hi, 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.
Swap a single tile in hewing and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
hewing 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.
hewing is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hewing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hewing and whinge, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hewing 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 hewing produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.