sawtooth needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sawtooth is the highest-scoring word from sawtooth, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in sawtooth — and it is sawtooth itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sawtooth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oaths, shoot, toast, and tooth. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including swath, thaws and wahoo.
Rearranging the letters in sawtooth produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hats, host and oath. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including show, wash and what.
Unscrambling sawtooth turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has and hat. For points, the strongest plays are haw, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sawtooth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including ah, aw and ha.
Swap a single tile in sawtooth 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.
sawtooth 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for sawtooth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
sawtooth is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sawtooth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sawtooth, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sawtooth 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 sawtooth produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.