Words With Friends Cheat
Enter the letters from your rack (use ? for blanks) — we'll find every word you can play, ranked by length and points.
Enter your letters above. Results come from the Words With Friends dictionary - the official Scrabble dictionary in North America.
How the Words With Friends Cheat works
Enter the seven tiles from your Words With Friends rack — letters and blanks (use ? for a blank) — and we'll show you every word you can build from them, ranked by point value. The list also covers shorter plays you can use to hook off existing letters on the board, which is where most WWF games are actually won.
Words With Friends shares a lot of DNA with Scrabble, but the differences add up to a different game. The dictionary is bigger, the tile values are scrambled, the bingo bonus is smaller, and the premium-square layout makes high-value letters worth more in different spots on the board. The finder takes that into account.
Which dictionary we use
Words With Friends uses a Zynga-curated word list derived from the ENABLE2K dictionary, plus a few thousand additions and removals over the years. It's not the same as the official Scrabble dictionary (NWL or Collins). Common WWF-only words include things like QI, ZA, EW, and a long tail of recent additions; conversely some uncommon Scrabble-valid words won't play in WWF.
The results above are drawn from our dictionary, which closely tracks the WWF accepted list. The vast majority of words shown will play; if a word isn't accepted in your specific game, it's almost always because WWF has removed it in a recent update.
WWF tile values vs. Scrabble — the gotchas
If you've ever played both games, you'll have noticed something feels off. The letters score differently. Here are the changes that catch people out:
- H is worth 3 in WWF (vs. 4 in Scrabble) — so HEAT, HOUSE, HEART score noticeably less
- B and C are worth 4 (vs. 3) — making BC-heavy words sneakily valuable
- G is worth 3 (vs. 2) — so the common -ING ending punches harder
- J is worth 10 (vs. 8 in Scrabble) — tied with Q and Z as the most valuable tile
- L is worth 2 (vs. 1) — small but it matters across a 7-letter rack
- M is worth 4 (vs. 3)
- U is worth 2 (vs. 1) — and you'll see it more, because there are more Us in the WWF bag
- X is worth 8 (same as Scrabble) but the Triple Letter squares are positioned to make XI/XU plays brutal
- Y is worth 3 (vs. 4)
The point value next to each result above is the WWF score — what the word is worth on a blank WWF board with no premium squares applied. If you're flipping back to Scrabble, those numbers won't transfer.
💡 The 35-point bingo is still the biggest play in WWF
Playing all 7 of your tiles in one turn earns a 35-point bonus in Words With Friends — not the 50 that Scrabble pays. It's still the single most valuable thing you can do on most boards. Type all 7 of your rack tiles into the finder; any 7-letter result that pops out is a bingo waiting to happen.
Using blanks (and why they're more useful in WWF)
Each player has two blanks per game, same as Scrabble. They score zero, but they can stand for any letter. Type ? in place of each blank in your rack and the finder will show every word that's reachable — results that needed a blank get a subtle ⭐.
WWF blanks are arguably more valuable than Scrabble blanks because the bigger dictionary opens up more words for any given letter substitution. A blank used as an S in WWF unlocks even more plurals than it would in Scrabble.
Strategy: what's actually different in WWF
The board is the bigger story
Words With Friends uses a 15×15 board (same as Scrabble) but the premium squares are arranged differently. Triple Word squares are tucked in from the corners rather than sitting at them, and Double Letter squares are placed in clusters that make hookable plays through them — short, high-value words like JO, XU, ZA, QI — devastating. Knowing the two-letter word list well is more rewarding in WWF than in Scrabble.
The 2-letter word list
WWF's 2-letter word list is a slight superset of Scrabble's. Memorising it pays out repeatedly because so much of the board is built turn-by-turn through parallel plays that depend on those tiny words being valid:
- All the Scrabble 2s (AA, AB, AD, …, ZA) — plus OK, EW, and a few others that were added in recent updates
- QI, XI, XU, ZA, JO, KA — the high-value 2s, all WWF-valid, all match-winners on a Triple Letter
Swap turns aren't free, but they're rarely a mistake
If your rack is a dead end — no vowels, three of the same letter, only J and Z and nothing to play them with — swapping is almost always better than dumping a 5-point throwaway. You lose a turn, but a fresh rack regenerates your bingo chances. Top WWF players swap more than beginners think they should.
Frequently asked
Is the WWF dictionary the same as the Scrabble dictionary?
No. Words With Friends uses a Zynga-curated word list (ENABLE-derived with thousands of changes over the years), while Scrabble uses the NASPA Word List in North America or Collins Scrabble Words internationally. Many common WWF words — OK, EW, ZA, QI — are also valid in modern Scrabble, but the lists diverge in the long tail.
Why is the bingo bonus only 35 points instead of 50?
Zynga set it that way when WWF launched in 2009. 35 points is still a substantial swing — usually enough to win the turn outright — but it means WWF games are decided by a steadier stream of medium-sized plays rather than the all-or-nothing bingo race that defines high-level Scrabble.
The point values look different. Why?
Words With Friends uses its own tile values, not Scrabble's. H is worth 3 (not 4), J is 10 (not 8), L is 2 (not 1), M is 4 (not 3), and so on. The scores next to each result above are WWF values, so they'll match what shows in your game.
Can I use this with Solo Play or Lightning Round?
Yes — same dictionary, same tile values, same scoring rules apply across all WWF game modes. The only thing that changes is the matchmaking and time control.
Why doesn't a word I played in WWF show up here?
Either WWF accepted a word that's not yet in our dictionary (it happens, especially for very recent additions), or there's a typo in the letters you entered. WWF adds dozens of words per year and we update on a slower cadence — but the overlap with our results is well above 99%.