Hidden inside worsts sit strows and worsts, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 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.
strows and worsts tie for the highest Scrabble score from worsts at 9 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 worsts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and worsts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are strows and worsts, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worsts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorts and worst. For points, the strongest plays are stows, strow, swots, trows, worst, and worts — 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 worsts produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rows, sort, toss, tows, and twos. For points, the strongest plays are owts, rows, sows, stow, swot, tows, trow, twos, wort, wost, and wots — 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 worsts turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with row, tow, and two. For points, the strongest plays are owt, row, sow, tow, two, wos, and wot — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worsts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, ow, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ow 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.
Swap a single tile in worsts 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.
worsts 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 worsts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for worsts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
worsts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing worsts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strows and worsts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from worsts 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 worsts produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.