Hidden inside welder sit lewder, reweld, and welder, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lewder, reweld, and welder tie for the highest Scrabble score from welder at 10 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in welder: two come from rearranging its letters, and welder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lewder, reweld, and welder, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in welder. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rewed and wedel, 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 welder produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drew, weed, and were. For points, the strongest plays are drew, lewd, weed, and weld — 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 welder turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led and red. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in welder. 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 welder and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
welder 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 one sense for welder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
welder is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing welder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lewder, reweld, and welder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from welder 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 welder produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.