southwards 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, 480 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
southwards is the highest-scoring word from southwards, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 480 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in southwards — and it is southwards itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling southwards produces exactly one nine-letter word: southward. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southwards. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is washouts, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in southwards produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with authors, shadows, and towards. For points, the strongest play is shadows — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling southwards turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with author, hoards and roasts. For points, the strongest play is shadow — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southwards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, draws and dusts. For points, the strongest play is dhows — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in southwards produces 166 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto and dots. For points, the strongest play is dhow — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling southwards turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, art and ash. For points, the strongest plays are haw, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southwards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and as. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ah, aw and ha.
southwards 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 southwards carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for southwards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
southwards is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing southwards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is southwards, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from southwards 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 southwards produce 480 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 166 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.