widget needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WIGETD, WEIDTG or WITEDG and you get the same 6 letters as WIDGET: so the words from WIDGET listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
widget is the highest-scoring word from widget, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in widget — and it is widget itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widget produces exactly one five-letter word: wited. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in widget produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, edit, tied, and wide. For points, the strongest plays are twig and wide — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widget turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and get. For points, the strongest plays are dew, wed, and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widget. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, it, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in widget plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in widget 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.
widget 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 widget. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
widget is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widget unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is widget, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from widget 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 widget produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.