midwives needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
midwives is the highest-scoring word from midwives, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in midwives — and it is midwives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midwives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes, dives, views, and wives. For points, the strongest play is wived — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in midwives produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime and dive. For points, the strongest plays are view and wive — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling midwives turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, and sew. For points, the strongest plays are mew and vim — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midwives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id and is. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in midwives 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.
midwives 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 midwives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
midwives is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing midwives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is midwives, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from midwives 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 midwives produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.