Hidden inside trawlers sit trawlers and warstler, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
trawlers and warstler tie for the highest Scrabble score from trawlers at 11 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in trawlers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trawlers 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 trawlers and warstler, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in trawlers produces 5 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 trawler, warsler, warstle and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling trawlers turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and arrest. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including rawest, waters and tawers.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trawlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and laser. For points, 27 words tie at 8 points, including rawer, straw and swear.
Rearranging the letters in trawlers produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including laws, stew and wars.
Unscrambling trawlers turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including law, raw and saw.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trawlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in trawlers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in trawlers 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.
trawlers 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 two senses for trawlers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
trawlers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trawlers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are trawlers and warstler, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trawlers 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 trawlers produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.