Hidden inside stews sit stews and wests, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stews and wests tie for the highest Scrabble score from stews at 8 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in stews: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stews itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stews. For points, the strongest plays are stews and wests — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in stews produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sets, sews, stew, and west. For points, the strongest plays are sews, stew, tews, west, and wets — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling stews turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set, sew, and wet. For points, the strongest plays are sew, tew, and wet — each worth 6 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 stews. 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 stews and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
stews 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 stews carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for stews. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
stews is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stews unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stews and wests, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stews 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 stews produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.