Hidden inside wander sit wander, warden, and warned, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wander, warden, and warned tie for the highest Scrabble score from wander at 10 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in wander: two come from rearranging its letters, and wander itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wander and warned. For points, the strongest plays are wander, warden, and warned — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wander. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawn. For points, the strongest plays are awned, dawen, dewan, dewar, drawn, wader, waned, and wared — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wander produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dawn, dear, draw, drew, earn, and near. For points, the strongest plays are awed, dawn, draw, drew, wade, wand, ward, and wend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wander turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, ear, end, era, new, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wander. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, aw, ew, 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 wander and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
wander 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 five senses for wander. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
wander is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wander unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wander, warden, and warned, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wander 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 wander produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.