Hidden inside weigher sit reweigh and weigher, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reweigh and weigher tie for the highest Scrabble score from weigher at 14 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in weigher: one comes from rearranging its letters, and weigher itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reweigh and weigher, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weigher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weigh and where. For points, the strongest play is weigh — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in weigher produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grew, here and hire. For points, the strongest play is whig — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weigher turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, her, rig, and wig. For points, the strongest play is hew — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in weigher plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in weigher 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.
weigher 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 weigher carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for weigher. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
weigher is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weigher unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reweigh and weigher, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from weigher 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 weigher produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.