Hidden inside wonder sit downer and wonder, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downer and wonder tie for the highest Scrabble score from wonder at 10 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in wonder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wonder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wonder. For points, the strongest plays are downer and wonder — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wonder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drown, owned, and owner. For points, the strongest plays are dower, drown, endow, owned, and rowed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wonder produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, down, drew, nerd, owed, rode, and word. For points, the strongest plays are down, drew, owed, wend, and word — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wonder turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, new, nor, now, one, owe, and own. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wonder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, no, on, or, ow, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, 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 wonder 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.
wonder 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 six senses for wonder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
wonder is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wonder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are downer and wonder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wonder 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 wonder produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.