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.
Unscramble WHOTITU, TUOTHWI or WHOTIUT and you get the same 7 letters as WITHOUT: so the words from WITHOUT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
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.
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.
Unscrambling without turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hit, hot and how. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in without plus one additional letter.
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.