Hidden inside strewers sit strewers and wresters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strewers and wresters tie for the highest Scrabble score from strewers at 11 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in strewers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and strewers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are strewers and wresters, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in strewers produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are strewer, westers, and wrester, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strewers turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sewers and steers. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including sewers, resews and rewets.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strewers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, sewer and steer. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including sewer, stews and sweet.
Rearranging the letters in strewers produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, sees and sets. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including sews, stew and were.
Unscrambling strewers turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see, set, sew, and wet. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including sew, wet and eew.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in strewers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in strewers 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.
strewers 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 strewers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
strewers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strewers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strewers and wresters, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strewers 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 strewers produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.