weeklies needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 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.
weeklies is the highest-scoring word from weeklies, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in weeklies — and it is weeklies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weeklies produces exactly one six-letter word: selkie. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weeklies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with likes and weeks. For points, the strongest plays are lewks and weeks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in weeklies produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lies, like, seek, silk, week, and wise. For points, the strongest plays are lewk, skew, and week — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling weeklies turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, see, sew, and ski. For points, the strongest plays are eek, eke, elk, ilk, kis, lek, and ski — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weeklies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, and we. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in weeklies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in weeklies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
weeklies 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 three senses for weeklies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
weeklies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weeklies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is weeklies, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from weeklies 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 weeklies produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.