Unscramble NEWS and you have 13 words, NEWS itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. 2 anagrams of NEWS are on the page: SEWN and WENS, each 7 points. It has 4 letters, 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
Looking for nswe, nwse, wesn, senw, snew, snwe, ensw, eswn, ewsn or nwes? They use the same letters as NEWS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from NEWS split into 3 with 4 letters, 5 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of NEWS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with NE · ending in WS · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to NEWS:
What NEWS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
NEWS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 13) | 13 | 13 | 12 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: EW.
These 12 words take every letter of NEWS plus a single extra one.