newspaper needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 287 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
newspaper is the highest-scoring word from newspaper, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 287 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in newspaper — and it is newspaper itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in newspaper produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is swapper, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling newspaper turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer and papers. For points, the strongest plays are enwrap, pawers, pawnee, pawner, pesewa, prawns, and spewer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newspaper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase, newer, paper, penes, saner, and sewer. For points, the strongest plays are pawer, pawns, prawn, spawn, sweep, warps, weeps, and wraps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in newspaper produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, earn, ears, ease, eras, naps, and near. For points, the strongest plays are pawn, paws, pews, pwns, spew, swap, waps, warp, wasp, weep, and wrap — 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 newspaper turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, nap, new, and pan. For points, the strongest plays are paw, pew, pwn, and wap — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newspaper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in newspaper plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in newspaper 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.
newspaper 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for newspaper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
newspaper is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing newspaper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is newspaper, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from newspaper 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 newspaper produce 287 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.