Hidden inside prewar sit prewar, rewrap, and warper, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prewar, rewrap, and warper tie for the highest Scrabble score from prewar at 11 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in prewar: two come from rearranging its letters, and prewar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prewar, rewrap, and warper, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prewar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rawer. For points, the strongest play is pawer — 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 prewar produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rare, wear, and wrap. For points, the strongest plays are warp 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 prewar turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, paw, pea, and per. For points, the strongest plays are paw, pew, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prewar. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: aw, ew, and we, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in prewar and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
prewar 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 one sense for prewar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
prewar is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prewar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prewar, rewrap, and warper, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prewar 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 prewar produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.