newscasts needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 217 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
newscasts is the highest-scoring word from newscasts, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 217 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in newscasts — and it is newscasts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling newscasts produces exactly one eight-letter word: newscast. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in newscasts produces 4 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 newscasts turns up 20 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 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newscasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, cases, casts, cents, nests, scent, and seats. 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 newscasts produces 79 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 newscasts 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 newscasts. 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.
Swap a single tile in newscasts 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.
newscasts 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 newscasts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
newscasts is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing newscasts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is newscasts, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from newscasts 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 newscasts produce 217 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.