waltzes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waltzes is the highest-scoring word from waltzes, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in waltzes — and it is waltzes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waltzes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with least, steal and sweat. For points, the strongest play is waltz — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in waltzes produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and last. For points, the strongest plays are laze, zeal, zest, and zeta — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling waltzes turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and law. For points, the strongest plays are sez and zas — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waltzes. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in waltzes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in waltzes 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.
waltzes 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.
waltzes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waltzes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is waltzes, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from waltzes 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 waltzes produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 23 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.