Hidden inside warps sit warps and wraps, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
warps and wraps tie for the highest Scrabble score from warps at 10 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in warps: one comes from rearranging its letters, and warps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wraps. For points, the strongest plays are warps and wraps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in warps produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paws, raps, wars, and wrap. For points, the strongest plays are paws, swap, waps, warp, wasp, and wrap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling warps turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paw, rap, raw, saw, war, and was. For points, the strongest plays are paw and wap — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in warps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 warps 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.
warps 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 six senses for warps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
warps is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing warps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are warps and wraps, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from warps 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 warps produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.