Hidden inside wreathes sit weathers and wreathes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 316 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
weathers and wreathes tie for the highest Scrabble score from wreathes at 14 points. The top 10 of 316 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in wreathes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wreathes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weathers. For points, the strongest plays are weathers and wreathes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wreathes produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sweater and weather. For points, the strongest plays are swather, thawers, weather, wethers, whereas, whereat, wreathe, and wreaths — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wreathes turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, hearts, rawest, threes, and waters. For points, the strongest plays are hawser, hewers, rewash, shewer, swarth, swathe, thawer, thraws, washer, wether, wheats, wheres, wraths, and wreath — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wreathes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, erase, hates, hears, heart, heats, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are hawse, hewer, shrew, swath, thaws, thews, thraw, threw, whats, wheat, where, whets, and wrath — 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 wreathes produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and hate. For points, the strongest plays are haws, hews, shaw, shew, shwa, thaw, thew, wash, what, whee, and whet — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wreathes turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ash, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are haw, hew, and wha — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wreathes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, aw, eh, ew, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, eh, ew, ha, he, sh, 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 wreathes 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.
wreathes 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 wreathes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
wreathes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wreathes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are weathers and wreathes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wreathes 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 wreathes produce 316 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.