widower needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
widower is the highest-scoring word from widower, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in widower — and it is widower itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widower turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weirdo. For points, the strongest plays are weirdo and wordie — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weird and wider. For points, the strongest plays are widow and wowed — 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 widower produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drew, owed, ride, rode, wide, wire, and word. For points, the strongest plays are drew, owed, wide, and word — 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 widower turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, owe, red, rid, rod, row, and wow. For points, the strongest play is wow — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, id, or, ow, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in widower plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in widower 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.
widower 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 widower carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for widower. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
widower is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is widower, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from widower 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 widower produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.