Hidden inside waiters sit waister, waiters, wariest and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waister, waiters, wariest and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from waiters at 10 points. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in waiters: three come from rearranging its letters, and waiters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with waiters. For points, the strongest plays are waister, waiters, wariest, and wastrie — 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 waiters turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rawest, waiter, waters, and writes. For points, the strongest plays are rawest, tawers, twiers, waiter, waster, waters, wriest, and writes — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waiters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates, stair, stare, straw, swear, and sweat. For points, the strongest plays are resaw, sawer, sewar, straw, strew, sware, swart, swear, sweat, tawer, tawie, tawse, trews, twaes, twier, wairs, waist, waits, wares, warts, waste, water, wears, weirs, wetas, wires, wiser, wites, wrest, wries, wrist, write, and writs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in waiters produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are awes, raws, staw, stew, swat, taws, tews, twae, twas, waes, wair, wait, ware, wars, wart, wast, wats, wear, weir, wert, west, weta, wets, wire, wise, wist, wite, wits, and writ — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling waiters turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are awe, raw, saw, sew, taw, tew, twa, wae, war, was, wat, wet, wis, and wit — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waiters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, ew, is, 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 waiters and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
waiters 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 waiters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for waiters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
waiters is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waiters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are waister, waiters, wariest, and wastrie, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waiters 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 waiters produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.