Hidden inside swears sit resaws, sawers, sewars and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resaws, sawers, sewars and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from swears at 9 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in swears: four come from rearranging its letters, and swears itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swears. For points, the strongest plays are resaws, sawers, sewars, swears, and wrasse — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swear and wears. For points, the strongest plays are resaw, sawer, sewar, sware, swear, wares, and wears — 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 swears produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, seas, sews, wars, and wear. For points, the strongest plays are awes, raws, saws, sews, waes, ware, wars, and wear — 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 swears turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, ear, era, raw, saw, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are awe, raw, saw, sew, wae, war, and was — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in swears 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.
swears 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 swears carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for swears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
swears is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing swears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resaws, sawers, sewars, swears, and wrasse, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from swears 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 swears produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.