Hidden inside widely sit dewily, widely, and wieldy, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 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.
dewily, widely, and wieldy tie for the highest Scrabble score from widely at 13 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in widely: two come from rearranging its letters, and widely 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 dewily, widely, and wieldy, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widely. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is wyled, 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 widely produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, lied, wide, and wild. For points, the strongest play is dewy — 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 widely turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are wye and yew — each worth 9 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 widely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, we, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in widely 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.
widely 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 widely carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for widely. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
widely is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widely unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dewily, widely, and wieldy, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from widely 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 widely produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.