waltzers needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 244 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waltzers is the highest-scoring word from waltzers, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 244 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in waltzers — and it is waltzers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in waltzers produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are waltzer and waltzes, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling waltzers turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, rawest, and waters. For points, the strongest play is ersatz — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waltzers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and laser. For points, the strongest plays are waltz and warez — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in waltzers produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including laze, raze and tzar.
Unscrambling waltzers turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are rez, sez, and zas — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waltzers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in waltzers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
waltzers 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for waltzers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
waltzers is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waltzers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is waltzers, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from waltzers 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 waltzers produce 244 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.