Hidden inside skewer sit krewes and skewer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
krewes and skewer tie for the highest Scrabble score from skewer at 13 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in skewer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and skewer 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 krewes and skewer, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skewer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sewer and weeks. For points, the strongest plays are krewe and weeks — 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 skewer produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seek, week, and were. For points, the strongest plays are skew and week — each 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 skewer turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and sew. For points, the strongest plays are eek and eke — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skewer. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ew 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.
Swap a single tile in skewer 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.
skewer 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 skewer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for skewer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
skewer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skewer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are krewes and skewer, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skewer 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 skewer produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.