Hidden inside waits sit waist and waits, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waist and waits tie for the highest Scrabble score from waits at 8 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in waits: one comes from rearranging its letters, and waits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: waist and waits, worth 8 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in waits produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wait. For points, the strongest plays are staw, swat, taws, twas, wait, wast, wats, wist, and wits — 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 waits turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, sat, saw, sit, and was. For points, the strongest plays are saw, taw, twa, was, wat, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is aw — 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 waits and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
waits 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 waits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for waits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
waits is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are waist and waits, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waits 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 waits produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.