Unscramble HALFWITS to get 196 words. HALFWITS itself is a real word: 17 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. HALFWIT is the best of the shorter words, at 16 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
H43A1L12F4W4I1T1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from HALFWITS split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 10 with 6, 52 with 5, 60 with 4, 52 with 3 and 20 with 2.
HALFWIT is the only one of the 7-letter words in HALFWITS; it scores 16 points.
WHIFT tops the 5-letter words from HALFWITS at 14 points; next come FAITH and FILTH on 11. FLASH, SHIFT and FAILS will look familiar.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble HALFWITS; 18 of them share the top score of 10. FAST, HALF and WISH are everyday picks.
Among 52 3-letter words from HALFWITS, the top score is 9, reached by 4. WAS, HAS and ITS are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of HALFWITS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with HA · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
What HALFWITS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept HALFWITS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALFWITS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 196) | 168 | 192 | 155 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 24 of them: WHIFTS, WHIFT, WAIFTS, HALFS, WAIFT, WISHT, WITHS, FAWS, FAW, FASTI, LITHS, TAISH and 12 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: HALFWITS, HALFWIT, FAHS, SHWA, FAH, THALIS, THALI, WALIS, AHIS, LAHS, AHI, AHS and 2 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 3 of them: ALFS, ALF and FI. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 1 of them: HAFIS.