widows needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
widows is the highest-scoring word from widows, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in widows — and it is widows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widows produces exactly one five-letter word: widow. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in widows produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is wows, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling widows turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ids 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ow 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 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in widows plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in widows 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.
widows 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 widows carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for widows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
widows is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is widows, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from widows 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 widows produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.