Hidden inside rewarder sit redrawer, rereward, and rewarder, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
redrawer, rereward, and rewarder tie for the highest Scrabble score from rewarder at 12 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in rewarder: two come from rearranging its letters, and rewarder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are redrawer, rereward, and rewarder, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rewarder produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is redware, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rewarder turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer, drawer, and reward. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including drawer, reward and drawee.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rewarder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rarer and rawer. For points, the strongest plays are dewar, rewed, wader, and wared — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rewarder produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and deer. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including draw, drew and weed.
Unscrambling rewarder turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and era. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rewarder. 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.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in rewarder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rewarder 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.
rewarder 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 rewarder carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
rewarder is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rewarder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are redrawer, rereward, and rewarder, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rewarder 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 rewarder produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.