Hidden inside yawps sit waspy and yawps, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 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.
waspy and yawps tie for the highest Scrabble score from yawps at 13 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in yawps: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yawps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are waspy and yawps, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yawps produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paws, pays, and ways. For points, the strongest play is yawp — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yawps turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paw, pay, saw, say, spy, was, and way. For points, the strongest plays are way and yaw — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yawps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, and ya — 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 yawps 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.
yawps 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 yawps carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for yawps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
yawps is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yawps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are waspy and yawps, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yawps 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 yawps produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.