Hidden inside sweep sit sweep and weeps, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 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.
sweep and weeps tie for the highest Scrabble score from sweep at 10 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 sweep: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sweep itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: sweep and weeps, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sweep produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees and weep. 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 sweep turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sweep. 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 sweep 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.
sweep 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 fifteen senses for sweep. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
sweep is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sweep unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sweep and weeps, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sweep 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 sweep 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, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.