Unscramble WARDS to get 32 words. WARDS itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 9 in Words With Friends. WARDS has 2 anagrams here, DRAWS and SWARD, scoring 9 like WARDS itself. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Counting the words from WARDS by length: 3 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 14 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Trade one tile of WARDS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with WA · ending in DS · all 5-letter words
WARDS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept WARDS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARDS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 32) | 28 | 32 | 26 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 4 of them: SWAD, ARDS, ARD and SAR. Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: DAS and DA.
These 12 words take every letter of WARDS plus a single extra one.