Hidden inside where sit hewer and where, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EHWER, HEWRE or RWHEE and you get the same 5 letters as WHERE: so the words from WHERE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
hewer and where tie for the highest Scrabble score from where at 11 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in where: one comes from rearranging its letters, and where itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with where. For points, the strongest plays are hewer and where — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in where 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.
where 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.
where is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing where unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hewer and where, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from where 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 where produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.