wistaria needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wistaria is the highest-scoring word from wistaria, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in wistaria — and it is wistaria itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wistaria. If a familiar word is all you need, start with await, stair and straw. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including await, straw and waist.
Rearranging the letters in wistaria produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and rats. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including wait, wars and iwis.
Unscrambling wistaria turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art and its. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including raw, saw and war.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wistaria. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, the strongest play is aw — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in wistaria plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wistaria 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.
wistaria 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 wistaria carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for wistaria. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
wistaria is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wistaria unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is wistaria, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from wistaria 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 wistaria produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.