shrewdies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shrewdies is the highest-scoring word from shrewdies, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shrewdies — and it is shrewdies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shrewdies produces exactly one eight-letter word: shrewdie. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shrewdies produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires. For points, the strongest plays are shrewed and swished — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shrewdies turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, dishes, series, sewers, shreds, wished, and wishes. For points, the strongest plays are shewed, shrewd, and wished — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrewdies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress, dries, hides, hired, hires, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are hewed and whids — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shrewdies produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, dish, drew, here, hers, and hide. For points, the strongest play is whid — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shrewdies turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, her, hid, his, ids, red, and rid. For points, the strongest play is hew — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrewdies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, he, hi, id, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, ew, he, hi, sh, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in shrewdies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shrewdies and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
shrewdies 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.
shrewdies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shrewdies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shrewdies, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shrewdies 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 shrewdies produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.