Hidden inside winders sit rewinds and winders, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rewinds and winders tie for the highest Scrabble score from winders at 11 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in winders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and winders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rewinds and winders, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling winders turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diners. For points, the strongest plays are dwines, rewind, weirds, widens, 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in winders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, dines, dries, nerds, rides, risen, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are dwine, weird, wends, widen, wider, wides, winds, wined, wired, wised, 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 winders produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, drew, ends, nerd, news, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are dews, drew, weds, 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 winders turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, new, red, rid, and sew. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in winders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, is, 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 winders 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.
winders 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 winders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
winders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing winders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rewinds and winders, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from winders 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 winders produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.