Hidden inside widenesses sit dewinesses and widenesses, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dewinesses and widenesses tie for the highest Scrabble score from widenesses at 14 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in widenesses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and widenesses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dewinesses and widenesses, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling widenesses turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is weediness, 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 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widenesses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dewiness and wideness, each 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 widenesses produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are endwise and sinewed, each 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 widenesses turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, sensed, and senses. For points, the strongest plays are dwines, swedes, weened, widens, and wissed — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widenesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, needs, seeds, sends, sense, sewed, and sides. For points, the strongest plays are dwine, sewed, swede, weeds, wends, widen, wides, winds, wined, and wised — 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 widenesses produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, ends, need, news, seed, and seen. For points, the strongest plays are dews, weds, weed, 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 widenesses turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, new, see, sew, and sin. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widenesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, is, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in widenesses plus one additional letter.
widenesses 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 two senses for widenesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
widenesses is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widenesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dewinesses and widenesses, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from widenesses 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 widenesses produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.