Hidden inside resews sit resews and sewers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resews and sewers tie for the highest Scrabble score from resews at 9 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in resews: one comes from rearranging its letters, and resews itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sewers. For points, the strongest plays are resews and sewers — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sewer. For points, the strongest plays are ewers, resew, sewer, and sweer — 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 resews produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sees, sews, and were. For points, the strongest plays are ewer, ewes, sews, weer, wees, and were — 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 resews turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and sew. For points, the strongest plays are eew, ewe, sew, and wee — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resews. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: 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 resews 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.
resews 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in resews carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for resews. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
resews is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resews unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resews and sewers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resews 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 resews produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.