Hidden inside newest sit newest and tweens, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
newest and tweens tie for the highest Scrabble score from newest at 9 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in newest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and newest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with newest. For points, the strongest plays are newest and tweens — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sweet, teens, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are newts, sweet, tween, weens, weest, and weets — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in newest produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, news, seen, sent, sewn, and stew. For points, the strongest plays are ewes, news, newt, sewn, stew, tews, twee, ween, wees, weet, wens, went, west, and wets — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling newest turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, new, see, set, sew, ten, and wet. For points, the strongest plays are eew, ewe, new, sew, tew, wee, wen, and wet — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newest. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ew and we, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in newest 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.
newest 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
newest is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing newest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are newest and tweens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from newest 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 newest produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.