waif needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waif is the highest-scoring word from waif, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in waif — and it is waif itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
1 five-letter word can be made using all the letters in waif plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in waif and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
waif 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 waif carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for waif. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
waif is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waif unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is waif, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from waif 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 waif produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word and 4 two-letter words.