Hidden inside tarweed sit dewater, tarweed, and watered, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dewater, tarweed, and watered tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarweed at 11 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tarweed: two come from rearranging its letters, and tarweed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with watered. For points, the strongest plays are dewater, tarweed, and watered — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tarweed turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drawee and warted, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarweed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade and water. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including dewar, rewed and tawed.
Rearranging the letters in tarweed produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including draw, drew and weed.
Unscrambling tarweed turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarweed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tarweed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarweed 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.
tarweed 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 tarweed carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tarweed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tarweed is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarweed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dewater, tarweed, and watered, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarweed 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 tarweed produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.