Hidden inside tweets sit tweest and tweets, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tweest and tweets tie for the highest Scrabble score from tweets at 9 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tweets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tweets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tweets. For points, the strongest plays are tweest and tweets — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tweets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sweet and tweet. For points, the strongest plays are sweet, tweet, weest, and weets — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tweets produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stew, test, and west. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including stew, west and ewes.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tweets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tweets and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tweets 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 tweets carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for tweets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tweets is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tweets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tweest and tweets, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tweets 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 tweets produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.