Hidden inside wideness sit dewiness and wideness, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dewiness and wideness tie for the highest Scrabble score from wideness at 12 points. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in wideness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wideness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dewiness and wideness, 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 wideness produces 3 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 endwise and sinewed, 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 wideness turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies and sensed. For points, the strongest plays are dwines, swedes, widens, and wissed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wideness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, needs, seeds, sends, sense, sewed, and sides. For points, the strongest plays are dwine, sewed, swede, weeds, wends, widen, wides, winds, wined, and wised — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wideness produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, ends, need, news, seed, and seen. For points, the strongest plays are dews, weds, weed, wend, wide, and wind — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wideness turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, new, see, sew, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are dew and wed — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wideness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, is, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — 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 wideness and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
wideness 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for wideness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
wideness is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wideness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dewiness and wideness, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wideness 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 wideness produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.