Hidden inside widener sit rewiden and widener, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rewiden and widener tie for the highest Scrabble score from widener at 11 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in widener: one comes from rearranging its letters, and widener 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 rewiden and widener, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widener turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wiener. For points, the strongest plays are dewier, rewind, and winder — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widener. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, newer, weird, and wider. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including weird, wider and dwine.
Rearranging the letters in widener produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dine and drew. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including drew, weed and wide.
Unscrambling widener turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and new. For points, the strongest plays are dew and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widener. 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.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in widener plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in widener 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.
widener 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.
widener is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widener unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rewiden and widener, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from widener 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 widener produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.