How the Words With Friends solver works
Type your tiles into the box above. The solver checks all 172,823 words in its dictionary and shows every word your letters can make. You can use each tile once. A word does not have to use every tile you hold.
Results are grouped by length, longest first. Within each length, higher points come first. Common words appear above rare ones. A search takes a fraction of a second in your browser.
Use a question mark for a blank tile. The blank stands for any letter and scores zero points. You can also type an asterisk for a blank.
Words With Friends tile values are not Scrabble values
Words With Friends uses its own point values. Some letters are worth more or less than they are in Scrabble. Here are the differences:
| Letter | Words With Friends | Scrabble |
|---|---|---|
| J | 10 | 8 |
| B | 4 | 3 |
| C | 4 | 3 |
| G | 3 | 2 |
| H | 3 | 4 |
| L | 2 | 1 |
| U | 2 | 1 |
| M | 4 | 3 |
| P | 4 | 3 |
| N | 2 | 1 |
| V | 5 | 4 |
| Y | 3 | 4 |
Take the word quiz. In Scrabble it scores 22 points. In Words With Friends it scores 23 points. The Q is 10 in both games, but the U is worth 2 here and 1 in Scrabble. That one point can change which word you pick.
The scores on this page do not include bonus squares. A double letter square, a triple word square, or any other board bonus is not added. You will need to add those yourself based on where you place the word.
Filters that help you hook onto the board
Your best play often uses letters already on the board. The contains filter lets you do that. Type one or more letters into the contains box, and the solver only shows words with those letters in that order, anywhere in the word.
Say the board has an R and you hold E, A, G, L, E. Type R into contains. The solver will show words like regale and largesse if your tiles allow them. This is how you find hooks that reach bonus squares.
Other filters work the same way:
- Starts with: the word must begin with the letters you type.
- Ends with: the word must end with the letters you type.
- Exact length: only words of that length.
- Minimum length: two letters is the shortest word the solver will show.
You can combine filters. For example, set contains to R and exact length to 5 to see only five-letter words with an R.
A worked example
Suppose your rack is L, E, A, G, E. The solver finds eagle, a five-letter word. It also finds shorter words you can play: gale, glee, age, gel, and lea.
Now check the points. Eagle uses E, A, G, L, E. In Words With Friends that is 1 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 8 points. Gale uses G, A, L, E: 3 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 7 points. Age is 3 + 3 + 1 = 7 points. Gel is 3 + 1 + 2 = 6 points. Lea is 2 + 1 + 1 = 4 points.
Eagle scores the most on face value, but it uses all five tiles. If you can place it on a triple word square, it becomes 24 points. Gale leaves you one tile, which may set up a better next turn. The solver shows the face value. You decide what fits the board.
About the dictionary
The solver uses ENABLE, the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon. It is a public-domain word list of 172,823 English words. All entries are lowercase. There are no proper nouns, hyphens, or apostrophes.
ENABLE is close to the official Words With Friends dictionary, but it is not the same list. A word you find here may be rejected by the game. The game may also accept a word that is not in ENABLE. Treat the results as a strong guide, not a guarantee.
Words are ranked common first. The ranking uses frequency buckets from Google's web word counts, based on a list by Peter Norvig. About 78,826 of the words have a frequency bucket. The rest are rare. This is why everyday words appear at the top of your results.
The solver does not handle multi-word anagrams or proper names. If you need an exact rearrangement of all your letters, try the anagram solver. For Scrabble values, use the Scrabble word finder. To see how points are calculated, read how we calculate.