Hidden inside swindles sit swindles, wildness, and windless, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
swindles, wildness, and windless tie for the highest Scrabble score from swindles at 12 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in swindles: two come from rearranging its letters, and swindles 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 swindles, wildness, and windless, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in swindles produces 3 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 swindle and windles, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling swindles turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slides. For points, the strongest plays are dwines, widens, wields, windle, and wissed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swindles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dines, lends, lined, lines, sends, and sides. For points, the strongest plays are dwine, welds, wends, widen, wides, wield, wilds, wiled, winds, wined, and wised — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in swindles produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dine, ends, lend, less, and lids. For points, the strongest plays are dews, lewd, weds, weld, wend, wide, wild, and wind — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling swindles turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, led, lid, lie, and new. For points, the strongest plays are dew and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swindles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, is, and we. For points, the strongest plays are 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 swindles 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.
swindles 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for swindles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
swindles is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing swindles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swindles, wildness, and windless, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from swindles 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 swindles produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.