Unscramble BREAKWATER and you have 235 words, BREAKWATER itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. It has 10 letters, 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BREAKWATER split into 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 8, 12 with 7, 32 with 6, 50 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 9 letters.
Among the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble BREAKWATER, REWAKE and WEAKER tie for first at 13 points. REBATE, BEWARE and BARKER are everyday picks.
Of the 50 5-letter words from BREAKWATER, 6 score 12 points, the group's best. WATER, BREAK and AWARE are the ones most people know.
The best of the 4-letter words in BREAKWATER is BAWK, 13 points; KAWA and WAKA on 11 follow. WERE, TAKE and WEEK are everyday picks.
AWK, EWK and KAW are the top 3-letter words made with BREAKWATER letters, 10 points each. ARE, WEB and ART will look familiar.
Keep every letter of BREAKWATER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with BR · ending in ER · all 10-letter words
What BREAKWATER means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BREAKWATER, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BREAKWATER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 235) | 179 | 235 | 165 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 56 of them: TWEAKER, ATABEK, KAWA, WAKA, ABERRATE, AWK, BEWET, BRAK, EWK, KARTER, KAW, KRAB and 44 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: BAKEWARE, BAWK, KREWE, TWERK, BERK, REWEAR, KETA, TWEER, EEK, WETA, EEW, BAE and 2 more.
With one more tile, the letters of BREAKWATER spell the words below.