weigh needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
weigh is the highest-scoring word from weigh, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in weigh — and it is weigh itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weigh produces exactly one four-letter word: whig. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weigh turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wig. For points, the strongest play is hew — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weigh. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, ew, he, hi, 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 weigh 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.
weigh 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 weigh carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for weigh. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
weigh is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weigh unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is weigh, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from weigh 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 weigh produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 5 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.