Hidden inside waited sit dawtie and waited, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dawtie and waited tie for the highest Scrabble score from waited at 10 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in waited: one comes from rearranging its letters, and waited itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with waited. For points, the strongest plays are dawtie and waited — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waited. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tawed and wited, 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 waited produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet, edit, idea, tied, wait, and wide. For points, the strongest plays are awed, dawt, wade, wadi, and wide — 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 waited turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, ate, die, eat, tad, tea, and tie. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waited. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, aw, ew, id, it, 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 waited 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.
waited 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 waited carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
waited is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waited unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dawtie and waited, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waited 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 waited produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.