weekender needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
weekender is the highest-scoring word from weekender, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in weekender — and it is weekender itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in weekender produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: weekend, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weekender 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 keened, kerned, and reeked, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weekender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with newer. For points, the strongest play is krewe — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in weekender produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drew and knee. For points, the strongest plays are knew and week — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weekender turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, new, and red. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including dew, eek and eke.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in weekender plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in weekender and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
weekender 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 two senses for weekender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
weekender is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weekender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is weekender, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from weekender 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 weekender produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.