Hidden inside redwing sit redwing and wringed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
redwing and wringed tie for the highest Scrabble score from redwing at 12 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in redwing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and redwing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are redwing and wringed, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling redwing turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with winged. For points, the strongest plays are dewing and winged — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redwing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, grind, weird, and wider. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including weird, wider and dwine.
Rearranging the letters in redwing produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, drew and grew. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including drew, grew and wide.
Unscrambling redwing turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and end. For points, the strongest plays are dew, wed, and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redwing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in redwing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in redwing 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.
redwing 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 two senses for redwing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
redwing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redwing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are redwing and wringed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redwing 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 redwing produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.