Hidden inside ironweeds sit ironweeds and rosinweed, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 454 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ironweeds and rosinweed tie for the highest Scrabble score from ironweeds at 13 points. The top 10 of 454 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ironweeds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ironweeds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ironweeds and rosinweed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ironweeds. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are disowner, doweries, endowers and 6 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ironweeds produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weirdos, wieners, and wonders. For points, 16 words tie at 11 points, including weirdos, wonders and downers.
Unscrambling ironweeds turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desire and diners. For points, 19 words tie at 10 points, including drowns, weirdo and wonder.
There are 123 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ironweeds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diner and dines. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including drown, owned and sewed.
Rearranging the letters in ironweeds produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies and dine. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including down, drew and owed.
Unscrambling ironweeds turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ironweeds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and id. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ironweeds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ironweeds 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.
ironweeds 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 ironweeds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ironweeds is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ironweeds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ironweeds and rosinweed, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ironweeds 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 ironweeds produce 454 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 123 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.