Hidden inside withes sit swithe, whites, and withes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
swithe, whites, and withes tie for the highest Scrabble score from withes at 12 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in withes: two come from rearranging its letters, and withes 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 swithe, whites, and withes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in withes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with white. For points, the strongest plays are swith, thews, whets, whist, white, whits, and withe — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in withes produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, site, stew, this, ties, west, and wise. For points, the strongest plays are hews, shew, thew, whet, whit, wish, and with — each 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 withes turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, its, set, sew, she, and sit. For points, the strongest play is hew — worth 9 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 withes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, ew, he, hi, sh, 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 withes 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.
withes 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 two senses for withes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
withes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing withes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swithe, whites, and withes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from withes 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 withes produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.