Words With Friends looks like Scrabble’s twin and prices its letters like a stranger. J is worth 10, not 8. W pays 6, B and P pay 4, and humble N doubles from 1 to 2 — so a word finder using the wrong value table quietly mis-ranks your whole rack. This cheat sheet uses the real Words With Friends values: type your tiles, and every playable word comes back scored correctly and ranked highest first, with ? for blanks and filters for the board in front of you. You can use this Words With Friends Cheat free on IlmHunt — no sign-up needed, and it runs entirely in your browser.
How the Words With Friends Cheat works
The mechanics are tile maths: your letters are treated as a multiset, each word in our 359,039-word list is tested for whether your tiles can cover it (a ? covers one missing letter and scores zero, as a blank does in the game), and survivors are totalled with Words With Friends face values, then sorted by score with longer words winning ties. The optional filters apply board patterns on top — starts-with for building off a letter already played, ends-with for landing on one, contains for the letter a parallel play forces into your word. What makes this tool different from a Scrabble finder is purely the price list, and the price list changes the answers more often than players expect.
How to use it
Enter your seven tiles and read the top of the list — but read it like a Words With Friends player, not a Scrabble player. Words heavy in B, C, M, P, N, U and W are worth more here than your instincts say, while H and Y are worth less (3 instead of 4). Check the top scorers against the board’s bonus squares — DW and TW multiply the whole word, DL and TL the letter — then use the filters when a specific square tempts you: contains “J” near a triple-letter, for instance. The display caps at the top 400 by score.
A worked example
Take the friendly rack AEINRST. A Scrabble finder tops its list at 7 points, because every tile scores 1. This tool tops the same 468 words at 8: nastier, ratines, antsier and the other seven-letter anagrams all gain a point because N is worth 2 in Words With Friends. Small difference — until it is not. The word jazz scores 29 under Scrabble values and 31 here (J is 10, not 8), and a J-word is exactly the kind of play you build a turn around. Rank order shifts too: a B-word can leapfrog an H-word once B pays 4 and H only 3. Same letters, same board, different prices, different best play.
The letter values that actually differ
Thirteen letters are priced differently between the two games, and knowing them sharpens every rack decision. Words With Friends pays more for B (4 vs 3), C (4 vs 3), G (3 vs 2), J (10 vs 8), L (2 vs 1), M (4 vs 3), N (2 vs 1), P (4 vs 3), U (2 vs 1), V (5 vs 4) and W (6 vs 4); it pays less for H (3 vs 4) and Y (3 vs 4). The practical upshot: in Words With Friends, dump H and Y earlier than Scrabble habits suggest, value racks rich in M, P and W, and never waste a J on a cheap square. This tool has the table built in — the worked example above is the table quietly changing the answer.
Limitations worth knowing
Scores are tile totals before board bonuses — the tool cannot see DW, TW, DL or TL squares, parallel words, or the all-tiles bonus, so placement judgement stays with you. Our word list is a broad English list rather than Zynga’s exact game dictionary (which is ENABLE-based and close to, but not identical with, tournament Scrabble lists), so a rare word here might be refused by the app; everyday words are always safe. And the standing house rule: it is a “cheat” in name and a study aid in spirit — many players use it after a game to see what they missed.
Words With Friends Cheat – frequently asked questions
How is this different from a Scrabble word finder?
Only in the letter values — but that is enough to change the ranking. Words With Friends reprices thirteen letters, so the best play from a rack is often a different word here than in Scrabble. We keep a separate Scrabble Word Finder with the other table.
Does it support blank tiles?
Yes — type ? for each blank. Words that need the blank score that letter as zero, matching the game’s rules.
Why does my top word score less than in the app?
Because the app adds board bonuses — double/triple letter and word squares — on top of tile values. This tool shows the tile total so you can compare candidate words fairly before choosing a square.
Will every word here work in the app?
Nearly all. Our list is slightly broader than the game’s ENABLE-based dictionary, so a rare entry may be rejected; if a word looks unlikely, prefer the next candidate down the list.
More word tools
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