Hidden inside wrested sit strewed and wrested, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strewed and wrested tie for the highest Scrabble score from wrested at 11 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in wrested: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wrested itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are strewed and wrested, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wrested turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert and rested. For points, the strongest plays are reweds, stewed, and tweeds — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wrested. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, sewed and sewer. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including sewed, weeds and rewed.
Rearranging the letters in wrested produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drew and rest. For points, the strongest plays are dews, drew, weds, and weed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wrested turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red, see and set. For points, the strongest plays are dew and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in wrested plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wrested 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.
wrested 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 wrested carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
wrested is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wrested unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strewed and wrested, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wrested 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 wrested produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.