Hidden inside writes sit twiers, wriest, and writes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SWETIR, TWEIRS or SWEIRT and you get the same 6 letters as WRITES: so the words from WRITES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
twiers, wriest, and writes tie for the highest Scrabble score from writes at 9 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in writes: two come from rearranging its letters, and writes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with writes. For points, the strongest plays are twiers, wriest, and writes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in writes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tires, tries and wires. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including wires, wiser and wrist.
Rearranging the letters in writes produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rise and site. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including stew, west and wire.
Unscrambling writes turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set and sew. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including sew, wet and tew.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in writes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, it, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
17 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in writes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in writes 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.
writes 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 writes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eight senses for writes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
writes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing writes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are twiers, wriest, and writes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from writes 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 writes produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.