Hidden inside without sit outwith and without, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outwith and without tie for the highest Scrabble score from without at 13 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in without: one comes from rearranging its letters, and without itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with without. For points, the strongest plays are outwith and without — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling without turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outhit and outwit, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in without produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with thou and with. For points, the strongest plays are whit 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 without turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hit, hot, how, out, tho, tit, and tow. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in without. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho, it, oh, ow, to, and uh. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, ow, uh, 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.
Swap a single tile in without 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.
without 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 without carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for without. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
without is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing without unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outwith and without, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from without 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 without produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.