Unscramble SWORD and you have 30 words, SWORD itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: DROWS and WORDS. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
S1W4O1R1D2
Words from SWORD by length: 3 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 12 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of SWORD but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SW · ending in RD · all 5-letter words
What SWORD means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SWORD, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWORD itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 30) | 25 | 30 | 25 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DROWS, DROW, ORDS, DSO and ORD, 5 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of SWORD plus a single extra one.