writer needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WITRER, EIRRTW or WETRIR and you get the same 6 letters as WRITER: so the words from WRITER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
writer is the highest-scoring word from writer, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in writer — and it is writer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in writer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with write. For points, the strongest plays are twier, wirer, wrier, and write — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in writer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, it, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in writer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in writer 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.
writer 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 writer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for writer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
writer is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing writer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is writer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from writer 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 writer produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.