Hidden inside writers sit wrister and writers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wrister and writers tie for the highest Scrabble score from writers at 10 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in writers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and writers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with writers. For points, the strongest plays are wrister and writers — 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 writers turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with writer and writes. For points, the strongest plays are twiers, wirers, wriest, writer, and writes — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in writers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tires, tries, wires, wiser, wrist, and write. For points, the strongest plays are strew, trews, twier, weirs, wirer, wires, wiser, wites, wrest, wrier, wries, wrist, write, and writs — 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 writers produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rise, site, stew, stir, ties, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are stew, tews, weir, wert, west, wets, wire, wise, wist, wite, wits, and writ — 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 writers turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set, sew, sir, sit, tie, and wet. For points, the strongest plays are sew, tew, wet, wis, and wit — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in writers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, it, 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 writers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
writers 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 writers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for writers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
writers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing writers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wrister and writers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from writers 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 writers produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.