rewrites 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, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rewrites is the highest-scoring word from rewrites, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in rewrites — and it is rewrites itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rewrites produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retires and writers. For points, the strongest plays are rewires, rewrite, strewer, wrester, wrister, and writers — 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 rewrites turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retire, writer, and writes. For points, the strongest plays are rewets, rewire, twiers, wester, wirers, wriest, writer, and writes — 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 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rewrites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sewer, steer, sweet, tires, trees, tries, and wires. For points, the strongest plays are ewers, resew, rewet, sewer, strew, sweer, sweet, trews, tweer, twier, weest, weets, weirs, wirer, wires, wiser, wites, wrest, wrier, wries, wrist, write, and writs — 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 rewrites produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rise, site, stew, stir, ties, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are ewer, ewes, stew, tews, twee, weer, wees, weet, weir, were, wert, west, wets, wire, wise, wist, wite, wits, and writ — 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 rewrites turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, see, set, sew, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eew, ewe, sew, tew, wee, wet, wis, and wit — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rewrites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, it, and we. For points, the strongest plays are 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 rewrites 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.
rewrites 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 rewrites carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for rewrites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
rewrites is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rewrites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rewrites, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rewrites 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 rewrites produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.