Words With Friends® Cheat
Find valid plays for Words With Friends® using its own tile values.
Words With Friends® is a trademark of Zynga. SnagWord is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by any of these companies. See our trademark disclaimer.
How it works
This finder runs on the Words With Friends®-specific tile value table, which is a genuinely different scoring system from Scrabble®'s, not just a reskin — several letters are worth more, most notably J and V at 10 and 5 points, and L, U, and M each carry higher values than they do on a Scrabble® tile. Type your rack in and results are scored and ranked using that WWF-specific table so the point totals you see match what you'd actually score in the app.
Words With Friends® also uses a larger 15x15 board with a different, denser layout of premium squares than Scrabble®'s 15x15 board, and its own dictionary (which allows a broader set of words than Scrabble® tournament lists in some cases and excludes a few Scrabble®-valid words in others). SnagWord's underlying word list is ENABLE, a public-domain ~172,800-word list, so treat any single edge-case word as worth double-checking in-app before playing it in a competitive match.
The solver logic itself is identical to the other SnagWord finders — it counts letters in your rack against every dictionary word's own letter requirements rather than generating permutations, so blanks (marked with ? or _) and long racks resolve instantly. What changes here is purely which tile-value table is used to sort and display the results.
As with every SnagWord tool, resolution happens client-side in your browser once the needed word-length data loads — nothing about your rack or your opponent's board is transmitted anywhere.
Tips & strategy
Prioritize J and V words specifically
At 10 and 5 points respectively, J and V both sit above their Scrabble® values on this app's table — a modest word like VEX or JAB is worth chasing here even when it wouldn't be a priority play on a Scrabble® board.
The bingo bonus is different too
Words With Friends® awards a 35-point bonus for playing all seven tiles in a turn (called a "Words With Friends® Bingo" in-app), compared to Scrabble®'s 50 — still worth chasing, but the math on whether a bingo beats a shorter high-scoring word shifts slightly because of the smaller bonus.
L, U, and M carry more weight than habit expects
Scrabble® players moving to Words With Friends® often undervalue L, U, and M out of habit, since all three are worth just 1 point in Scrabble® but more here — words built around them are worth a second look even when they'd feel unremarkable in the other game.
Double-check dictionary-edge words before a ranked match
Because Words With Friends® runs its own proprietary word list rather than any single published Scrabble® dictionary, a word this tool finds as "valid" against ENABLE is a strong candidate but not a hard guarantee in every edge case — verify anything unusual in-app first if points are on the line.
FAQ
Why are the scores different from the Scrabble® finder for the same word?
Because the two games publish different tile-value tables. J and V, for example, are worth more in Words With Friends® than in Scrabble®, while several common letters like L, U, and M also carry different point values — this tool uses the Words With Friends®-specific table so scores match what you'd see in the app.
Is SnagWord affiliated with Zynga or Words With Friends®?
No. SnagWord is an independent, fan-built tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Zynga, the company behind Words With Friends®. See our disclaimer page for the full trademark notice.
How much is a full-rack bonus worth in Words With Friends®?
35 points, added on top of the word's own tile-value score — smaller than Scrabble®'s 50-point bingo bonus, so weigh a full-rack play against a shorter, well-placed high-value word more carefully here than you would in Scrabble®.
Can I use this for the Words With Friends® 2 app too?
Yes — Words With Friends® 2 uses the same tile values and largely the same word list as the original, so results here apply to both versions.