Words With Friends helper
Type the tiles on your rack, use ? for a blank, and read the words off longest first. This is an independent tool: NLetterWords is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Zynga or Words With Friends.
Playing the rack, not just the word
A rack helper answers the easy half of the question. The longest word is rarely the best play: a board where you open a triple-word lane costs you more than the fourteen points you just took, and dumping every good letter leaves you drawing junk next turn. Look at the seven-letter answer, then look at the five-letter one that keeps an S and a blank on your rack.
Two habits are worth more than any finder. First, hold on to an S unless the play is worth at least eight or ten points more than the alternative — an S is a hook, and hooks are how you score on a crowded board. Second, keep your vowel-to-consonant balance near even; a rack of five consonants is a wasted turn no matter how many words the finder shows you.
The helper sorts longest first because that is the order people scan in, and shows the tile score beside each word so a short expensive play is not buried under a long cheap one.
Two honest caveats about this helper
The scores shown here are standard Scrabble tile values. Words With Friends does not use the same values — several letters are worth more there and several are worth less — so treat the number beside a word as a rough guide to how expensive its letters are, and take the real score from your own board.
The word list is ENABLE, which is public domain. It is not the dictionary the game uses, and the game's own dictionary is the only thing that decides whether a play is accepted. In practice the overlap on ordinary words is very high and the disagreements are at the edges: obscure two-letter words, recent slang, and words added to one list and not the other.
Both caveats point the same way: this is a helper for finding candidates, not an oracle for what the app will accept. Anybody claiming otherwise is either licensing a dictionary they are not naming or guessing.
Standard tile values
The values used for every score on this site. They are the English-language Scrabble tile values — a fact about the tiles in the box, not anybody's word list. A blank is worth zero, and counts as zero even when it stands in for a Z.
| Points | Letters |
|---|---|
| 1 | A E I L N O R S T U |
| 2 | D G |
| 3 | B C M P |
| 4 | F H V W Y |
| 5 | K |
| 8 | J X |
| 10 | Q Z |
Words With Friends uses a different set of values, so scores from this page do not transfer to that board. NLetterWords is not affiliated with either game.
Common questions
Is this the official Words With Friends dictionary?
No. This tool is independent and uses the public-domain ENABLE word list. Words With Friends is a trademark of Zynga, which has no involvement in this site and does not endorse it. Whether a word is accepted in the game is decided by the game.
How do I enter a blank tile?
Type ? or * where the blank goes. It stands for any letter, and up to two are supported — the number a physical set contains. Remember that a blank scores nothing, so a word played with one is worth less than the score shown.
Why does the helper show a word the game rejected?
Because the two lists are not identical. ENABLE and the commercial game dictionaries agree on the vast majority of ordinary words and diverge on obscure and recently added ones. There is no way to fix that without licensing the game's dictionary, which this site does not do.