widowers needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
widowers is the highest-scoring word from widowers, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in widowers — and it is widowers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in widowers produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weirdos. For points, the strongest play is widower — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widowers turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weirdo. For points, the strongest play is widows — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widowers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dries, rides and sword. For points, the strongest plays are widow and wowed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in widowers produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, does and drew. For points, the strongest play is wows — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widowers turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and owe. For points, the strongest play is wow — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widowers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and id. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in widowers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
widowers 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 widowers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for widowers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
widowers is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widowers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is widowers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from widowers 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 widowers produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.