Hidden inside wards sit draws, sward, and wards, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
draws, sward, and wards tie for the highest Scrabble score from wards at 9 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in wards: two come from rearranging its letters, and wards itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with draws. For points, the strongest plays are draws, sward, and wards — 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 wards produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with draw and wars. For points, the strongest plays are daws, draw, wads, and ward — 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 wards turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, raw, sad, saw, war, and was. For points, the strongest plays are daw and wad — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and aw. 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 wards 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.
wards 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 wards carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eight senses for wards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
wards is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are draws, sward, and wards, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wards 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 wards produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.