Hidden inside sawyers sit sawyers and swayers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sawyers and swayers tie for the highest Scrabble score from sawyers at 13 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sawyers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sawyers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sawyers and swayers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sawyers turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swears. For points, the strongest plays are sawyer and swayer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sawyers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with essay, swear, wears, and years. For points, the strongest plays are sways and weary — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sawyers produces 36 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 sawyers turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and aye. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including way, wry and wye.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in sawyers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sawyers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sawyers 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 sawyers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sawyers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sawyers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sawyers and swayers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sawyers 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 sawyers produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.