microwaves needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 571 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
microwaves is the highest-scoring word from microwaves, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 571 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in microwaves — and it is microwaves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling microwaves produces exactly one nine-letter word: microwave. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in microwaves. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caseworm and iceworms, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in microwaves produces 19 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are iceworm and vomicae, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling microwaves turns up 73 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, carves, covers, creams, crimes, movies, and scream. For points, the strongest play is vomica — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 164 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in microwaves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carve, caves, comas, comes, cores, and cover. For points, the strongest plays are avows, swive, views, vower, vrows, waive, waver, waves, wiver, and wives — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in microwaves produces 178 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, mice, more, move, and over. For points, the strongest play is cwms — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling microwaves turns up 105 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, car, cow, and ear. For points, the strongest play is cwm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in microwaves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, aw, ew, is, me, and or. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, ow, we, 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.
microwaves 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.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for microwaves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
microwaves is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing microwaves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is microwaves, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from microwaves 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 microwaves produce 571 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 73 six-letter words, 164 five-letter words, 178 four-letter words, 105 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.