Hidden inside wakener sit rewaken and wakener, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rewaken and wakener tie for the highest Scrabble score from wakener at 14 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in wakener: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wakener itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rewaken and wakener, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wakener. If a familiar word is all you need, start with newer. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including knawe, krewe and waken.
Rearranging the letters in wakener produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, knee and knew. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including knew, wake and weak.
Unscrambling wakener turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and era. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including ark, eek and eke.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wakener. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in wakener plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wakener 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.
wakener 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
wakener is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wakener unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rewaken and wakener, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wakener 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 wakener produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.