Hidden inside widen sit dwine, widen, and wined, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dwine, widen, and wined tie for the highest Scrabble score from widen at 9 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in widen: two come from rearranging its letters, and widen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dwine, widen, and wined, 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 widen produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, wide, wind, and wine. For points, the strongest plays are wend, wide, and wind — 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 widen turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, new, and win. 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — 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 widen 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.
widen 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 four senses for widen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
widen is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dwine, widen, and wined, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from widen 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 widen produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.