Unscramble SEAWEEDS and you have 92 words, SEAWEEDS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 12 points: SEESAWED. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
S1E1A1W4E1E1D2S1
By length, the words from SEAWEEDS split into 2 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 3 with 6, 18 with 5, 30 with 4, 25 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of SEAWEEDS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SE · ending in DS · all 8-letter words
What SEAWEEDS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SEAWEEDS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEAWEEDS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 92) | 71 | 91 | 63 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DEAWS, SWADS, SWEED, DEAW, SWAD, SWEES, WASES, SEASED, SWEE, WASE, DESSE, SEDES and 9 more, 21 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: EEEW, EEW, EW, DAS, EDS, ESSE and DA, 7 in all. Not in Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: AEDESES.