shrewdness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shrewdness is the highest-scoring word from shrewdness, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in shrewdness — and it is shrewdness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shrewdness produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dresses. For points, the strongest play is shrewed — 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 shrewdness turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sensed, senses, sewers, and shreds. For points, the strongest plays are shewed and shrewd — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrewdness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress, needs, nerds, newer, seeds, and sends. For points, the strongest play is hewed — 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 shrewdness produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drew, ends, hens, here, hers, and need. For points, the strongest plays are hewn, hews, shew, whee, and when — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shrewdness turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, hen, her, new, red, see, and sew. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrewdness. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, ew, he, sh, and we, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
shrewdness 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in shrewdness carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for shrewdness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
shrewdness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shrewdness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shrewdness, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shrewdness 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 shrewdness produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.