Hidden inside weather sit weather, whereat, and wreathe, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
weather, whereat, and wreathe tie for the highest Scrabble score from weather at 13 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in weather: two come from rearranging its letters, and weather itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weather. For points, the strongest plays are weather, whereat, and wreathe — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling weather turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are thawer, wether, and wreath, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weather. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, heart, there, three, threw, water, and where. For points, the strongest plays are hewer, thraw, threw, wheat, where, and wrath — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in weather produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hate, hear, heat, here, rate, tear, and thee. For points, the strongest plays are thaw, thew, what, whee, and whet — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling weather turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are haw, hew, and wha — each worth 9 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 weather. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, aw, eh, ew, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, eh, ew, ha, he, 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 weather 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.
weather 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 weather. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
weather is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weather unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are weather, whereat, and wreathe, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from weather 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 weather produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.