Hidden inside sawyer sit sawyer and swayer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sawyer and swayer tie for the highest Scrabble score from sawyer at 12 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in sawyer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sawyer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sawyer and swayer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sawyer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swear, wears, and years. For points, the strongest play is weary — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sawyer produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, easy and eras. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including ways, awry and sway.
Unscrambling sawyer turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye and ear. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including way, wry and wye.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sawyer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sawyer 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.
sawyer 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 two senses for sawyer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sawyer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sawyer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sawyer and swayer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sawyer 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 sawyer produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.