Hidden inside sweeper sit sweeper and weepers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sweeper and weepers tie for the highest Scrabble score from sweeper at 12 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sweeper: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sweeper itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sweeper and weepers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sweeper turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pewees, spewer, and weeper, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sweeper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sewer, sweep, and weeps. For points, the strongest plays are pewee, sweep, and weeps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sweeper produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, reps, weep, and were. For points, the strongest plays are pews, spew, and weep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sweeper turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, rep, see, and sew. For points, the strongest play is pew — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sweeper. 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 sweeper and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sweeper 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for sweeper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sweeper is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sweeper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sweeper and weepers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sweeper 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 sweeper produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.