Hidden inside tarweeds sit dewaters and tarweeds, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 327 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dewaters and tarweeds tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarweeds at 12 points. The top 10 of 327 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tarweeds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tarweeds 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 dewaters and tarweeds, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tarweeds produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, sweated, sweater, and watered. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including sweated, watered and dewater.
Unscrambling tarweeds turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, easter and erased. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including wasted, dewars and drawee.
There are 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarweeds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates and dears. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including draws, sewed and weeds.
Rearranging the letters in tarweeds produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including draw, drew and weed.
Unscrambling tarweeds turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarweeds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tarweeds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarweeds 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.
tarweeds 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 tarweeds carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tarweeds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tarweeds is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarweeds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dewaters and tarweeds, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarweeds 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 tarweeds produce 327 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.