renewals needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
renewals is the highest-scoring word from renewals, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in renewals — and it is renewals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in renewals produces 3 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 renewal and weaners, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling renewals turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer and learns. For points, the strongest plays are answer, newels, renews, resawn, resewn, walers, warsle, weaner, and weasel — 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renewals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase, lanes, laser, lawns, leans, and learn. For points, the strongest plays are ewers, lawns, newel, newer, renew, resaw, resew, rewan, sawer, sewan, sewar, sewer, swale, sware, swear, sweer, waler, wales, wanes, wares, warns, weals, weans, wears, weens, and wrens — 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 renewals produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears, ease, else, eras, lane, and lawn. For points, the strongest plays are anew, awee, awes, awls, awns, ewer, ewes, lawn, laws, news, raws, sawn, sewn, slaw, slew, snaw, swan, waes, wale, wane, wans, ware, warn, wars, weal, wean, wear, weel, ween, weer, wees, wens, were, and wren — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling renewals turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, law, new, ran, and raw. For points, the strongest plays are awe, awl, awn, eew, ewe, law, naw, new, raw, saw, sew, wae, wan, war, was, wee, and wen — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renewals. 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in renewals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in renewals and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
renewals 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 three senses for renewals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
renewals is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing renewals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is renewals, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from renewals 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 renewals produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.