Hidden inside reward sit drawer, redraw, reward and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drawer, redraw, reward and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reward at 10 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in reward: four come from rearranging its letters, and reward itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawer and reward. For points, the strongest plays are drawer, redraw, reward, warder, and warred — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reward. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rawer. For points, the strongest plays are dewar, wader, and wared — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reward produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, draw, drew, rare, read, and wear. For points, the strongest plays are awed, draw, drew, wade, and ward — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reward turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, raw, red, and war. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reward. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, 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.
Swap a single tile in reward 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.
reward 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 reward carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eight senses for reward. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
reward is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reward unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drawer, redraw, reward, warder, and warred, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reward 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 reward produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.