Hidden inside witness sit wisents and witness, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wisents and witness tie for the highest Scrabble score from witness at 10 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in witness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and witness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with witness. For points, the strongest plays are wisents and witness — 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 witness turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wisest. For points, the strongest plays are sinews, swines, twines, wisent, and wisest — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in witness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, sites, stews, twins, and wines. For points, the strongest plays are newts, sinew, stews, swine, twine, twins, wests, wines, wises, wists, and wites — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in witness produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, news, sent, sets, sewn, and sews. For points, the strongest plays are news, newt, sewn, sews, stew, tews, twin, wens, went, west, wets, wine, wins, wise, wiss, wist, wite, and wits — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling witness turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, new, set, sew, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are new, sew, tew, wen, wet, win, wis, and wit — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in witness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, in, is, it, 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 witness 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.
witness 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 seven senses for witness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
witness is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing witness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wisents and witness, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from witness 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 witness produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.