Hidden inside worst sit strow, trows, worst and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strow, trows, worst and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from worst at 8 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in worst: three come from rearranging its letters, and worst itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with worst. For points, the strongest plays are strow, trows, worst, and worts — 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 worst produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rows, sort, tows, and twos. For points, the strongest plays are owts, rows, stow, swot, tows, trow, twos, wort, wost, and wots — 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 worst turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with row, tow, and two. For points, the strongest plays are owt, row, sow, tow, two, wos, and wot — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worst. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, ow, so, and to. 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 worst 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.
worst 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 worst carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for worst. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
worst is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing worst unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strow, trows, worst, and worts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from worst 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 worst produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.