Hidden inside weaker sit rewake and weaker, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rewake and weaker tie for the highest Scrabble score from weaker at 13 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in weaker: one comes from rearranging its letters, and weaker itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weaker. For points, the strongest plays are rewake and weaker — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weaker. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are krewe, waker, and wreak, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in weaker produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wake, weak, wear, week, and were. For points, the strongest plays are wake, wark, weak, week, and weka — each 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 weaker turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, raw, and war. For points, the strongest plays are ark, eek, eke, kae, and kea — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weaker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 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 weaker 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.
weaker 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 weaker carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
weaker is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weaker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rewake and weaker, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from weaker 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 weaker produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.