newscast needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 210 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
newscast is the highest-scoring word from newscast, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 210 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in newscast — and it is newscast itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in newscast produces 3 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 ascents, secants, and stances, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling newscast turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sanest, scents, sweats, and wastes. For points, the strongest plays are sewans, sweats, tawses, and wastes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newscast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cases, casts, cents, nests, scent, seats, and stews. For points, the strongest plays are newts, sewan, snaws, stews, swans, swats, sweat, tawse, twaes, wanes, wants, waste, wasts, weans, wests, and wetas — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in newscast produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, case, cast, cats, and cent. For points, the strongest play is caws — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling newscast turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ass, ate, can, cat, and eat. For points, the strongest play is caw — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newscast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in newscast plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in newscast 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.
newscast 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 newscast. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
newscast is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing newscast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is newscast, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from newscast 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 newscast produce 210 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.