shrewdly needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shrewdly is the highest-scoring word from shrewdly, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in shrewdly — and it is shrewdly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shrewdly produces exactly one six-letter word: shrewd. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrewdly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shred and shyer. For points, the strongest plays are hwyls and wheys — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shrewdly produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drew, dyes and held. For points, the strongest plays are hwyl, whey, and whys — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shrewdly turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dry, dye and her. For points, the strongest play is why — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrewdly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew and he. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including eh, ew and he.
Swap a single tile in shrewdly 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.
shrewdly 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 shrewdly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
shrewdly is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shrewdly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shrewdly, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shrewdly 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 shrewdly produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 18 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.