widgets needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TWIDGES, TIDEWGS or STIGWED and you get the same 7 letters as WIDGETS: so the words from WIDGETS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
widgets is the highest-scoring word from widgets, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in widgets — and it is widgets itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widgets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets and edits. For points, the strongest plays are twigs, wides, wised, and wited — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in widgets produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and digs. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including wide, wigs and dews.
Unscrambling widgets turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and get. For points, the strongest plays are dew, wed, and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widgets. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in widgets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in widgets and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
widgets 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 two senses for widgets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
widgets is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widgets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is widgets, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from widgets 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 widgets produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.