Hidden inside worsen sit owners, resown, rowens and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
owners, resown, rowens and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from worsen at 9 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in worsen: three come from rearranging its letters, and worsen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owners. For points, the strongest plays are owners, resown, rowens, and worsen — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worsen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owner, swore, sworn, and worse. For points, the strongest plays are enows, owner, owsen, resow, rewon, rowen, serow, sower, swore, sworn, worse, and wrens — 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 worsen produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with news, nose, ones, owes, owns, rose, and rows. For points, the strongest plays are enow, news, nows, owes, owns, owse, rows, sewn, snow, sown, wens, woes, wons, wore, worn, and wren — 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 worsen turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with new, nor, now, one, owe, own, and row. For points, the strongest plays are new, now, owe, own, row, sew, sow, wen, woe, won, and wos — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worsen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, no, on, or, ow, so, 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 worsen 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.
worsen 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 two senses for worsen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
worsen is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing worsen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are owners, resown, rowens, and worsen, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from worsen 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 worsen produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.