Hidden inside unwary sit runway and unwary, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
runway and unwary tie for the highest Scrabble score from unwary at 12 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in unwary: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unwary itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with runway. For points, the strongest plays are runway and unwary — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling unwary produces exactly one five-letter word: unary. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unwary produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with warn. For points, the strongest plays are awny, awry, wany, wary, and yawn — 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 unwary turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, ran, raw, run, war, and way. For points, the strongest plays are way, wry, wyn, and yaw — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unwary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, aw, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, and ya — 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 unwary 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.
unwary 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 one sense for unwary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
unwary is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unwary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are runway and unwary, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unwary 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 unwary produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.