Hidden inside words sit sword and words, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sword and words tie for the highest Scrabble score from words at 9 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in words: one comes from rearranging its letters, and words itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: sword and words, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in words produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rods, rows, and word. For points, the strongest plays are dows 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 words turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rod and row. For points, the strongest play is dow — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ow 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 words and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
words 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 words carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for words. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
words is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing words unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sword and words, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from words 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 words produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.