Hidden inside winder sit rewind and winder, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rewind and winder tie for the highest Scrabble score from winder at 10 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in winder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and winder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rewind and winder, 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 winder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, weird, and wider. For points, the strongest plays are dwine, weird, widen, wider, wined, wired, and wried — 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 winder produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, drew, nerd, ride, wide, wind, and wine. For points, the strongest plays are drew, 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 winder turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, new, red, rid, and win. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in winder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, 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.
Swap a single tile in winder 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.
winder 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 three senses for winder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
winder is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing winder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rewind and winder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from winder 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 winder produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.