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The same solver as our Scrabble Word Finder, scored with Words With Friends tile values instead.
What is Words With Friends?
Words With Friends is a multiplayer word game created by Zynga, played asynchronously between two people on their own phones or devices rather than around a shared board. Each player draws a rack of letter tiles and takes turns placing them on a 15×15 grid to form crossword-style words, similar in spirit to Scrabble but built specifically for casual, turn-whenever-you-like mobile play.
Since its 2009 launch it has grown into one of the most-played word games on mobile, with chat built into each match — which is where the “Friends” in the name comes from.
What is the scoring system?
Like Scrabble, every tile in Words With Friends has a point value based on how common the letter is, and the board has double- and triple-letter and double- and triple-word squares that multiply your score. But the exact tile values and the layout of those premium squares are both different from Scrabble's — which is why the same rack can score differently depending on which game you're playing.
A few of the bigger differences: J and Q are worth 10 points in Words With Friends (vs. 8 for J in Scrabble), while H and Y are worth less (3 points instead of 4). Our Words With Friends Helper above already scores every result using the correct WWF values, so you don't have to convert anything by hand.
What's the difference between Words With Friends and Scrabble?
Beyond the tile values, the two games differ in a few practical ways. The board layouts aren't identical — premium squares sit in different spots, which changes strategy around which words to build where. Scrabble is bound by official tournament word lists (TWL in North America, Collins/SOWPODS internationally), while Words With Friends maintains its own dictionary that isn't identical to either — some words legal in one aren't legal in the other.
The games also grew from different roots: Scrabble is a physical board game first, played face-to-face with a fixed turn order, while Words With Friends was built mobile-first for asynchronous play — you can leave a match mid-game and return to it hours later, which isn't really how the tabletop version works.