Unscramble SPAWS to get 25 words. SPAWS itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. SPAWS has 2 anagrams here, SWAPS and WASPS, scoring 10 like SPAWS itself. 5 shorter words score 9, among them SWAP, PAWS and WASP. 5 letters: 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SPAWS by length: 3 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 9 with 3 and 3 with 2.
Keep every letter of SPAWS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SP · ending in WS · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; SWAPS and WASPS (10 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SPAWS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPAWS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 25) | 23 | 25 | 23 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
2 of the 25 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SPAWS and SPAW.
These 5 words take every letter of SPAWS plus a single extra one.