Hidden inside twisters sit retwists and twisters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retwists and twisters tie for the highest Scrabble score from twisters at 11 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in twisters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and twisters 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 retwists and twisters, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in twisters produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sitters. For points, the strongest plays are retwist, twister, and witters — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling twisters turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist, sister, sitter, twists, wisest, wrists, and writes. For points, the strongest plays are strews, twiers, twists, wisest, witter, wrests, wriest, wrists, and writes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in twisters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, rises, sites, stews, stirs, tests, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are stews, strew, trews, twier, twist, twits, weirs, wests, wires, wiser, wises, wists, wites, wrest, wries, wrist, write, and writs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in twisters produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rise, sets, sews, sirs, site, and sits. For points, the strongest plays are sews, stew, tews, twit, weir, wert, west, wets, wire, wise, wiss, wist, wite, wits, and writ — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling twisters turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set, sew, sir, sit, tie, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are sew, tew, wet, wis, and wit — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in twisters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, it, 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 twisters 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.
twisters 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 twisters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for twisters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
twisters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing twisters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retwists and twisters, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from twisters 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 twisters produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.