Hidden inside waders sit dewars and waders, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dewars and waders tie for the highest Scrabble score from waders at 10 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in waders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and waders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dewars and waders, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears, draws, reads, swear, and wears. For points, the strongest plays are dewar, draws, sawed, sward, wader, wades, wards, and wared — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in waders produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, draw, drew, ears, eras, and read. For points, the strongest plays are awed, daws, dews, draw, drew, wade, wads, ward, and weds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling waders turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, ear, era, raw, red, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, 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 waders 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.
waders 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 waders carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for waders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
waders is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dewars and waders, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waders 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 waders produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.