Hidden inside viewer sit review and viewer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
review and viewer tie for the highest Scrabble score from viewer at 12 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in viewer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and viewer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: review and viewer, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in viewer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is wiver, 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 viewer produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, view, were, and wire. For points, the strongest plays are view and wive — 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 viewer turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve. For points, the strongest plays are eew, eve, ewe, rev, vee, vie, and wee — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in viewer. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ew and we, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in viewer 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.
viewer 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 viewer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
viewer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing viewer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are review and viewer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from viewer 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 viewer produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.