Hidden inside warts sit straw, swart, and warts, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
straw, swart, and warts tie for the highest Scrabble score from warts at 8 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in warts: two come from rearranging its letters, and warts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with straw. For points, the strongest plays are straw, swart, and warts — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in warts produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, rats, star, and wars. For points, the strongest plays are raws, staw, swat, taws, twas, wars, wart, wast, and wats — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling warts turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, rat, raw, sat, saw, war, and was. For points, the strongest plays are raw, saw, taw, twa, war, was, and wat — each worth 6 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 warts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, 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 warts 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.
warts 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 warts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for warts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
warts is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing warts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are straw, swart, and warts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from warts 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 warts produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.