Hidden inside weeds sit sewed, swede, and weeds, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sewed, swede, and weeds tie for the highest Scrabble score from weeds at 9 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in weeds: two come from rearranging its letters, and weeds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sewed and weeds. For points, the strongest plays are sewed, swede, and weeds — 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 weeds produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seed and weed. For points, the strongest plays are dews, weds, and weed — 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 weeds turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and sew. For points, the strongest plays are dew 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weeds. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ew and we, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in weeds 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.
weeds 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 weeds carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for weeds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
weeds is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weeds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sewed, swede, and weeds, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from weeds 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 weeds produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.