Words With Friends Cheat
Type your rack (use ? for a blank) and any letters already on the board. You get every playable word with its tile points, best first, plus a word checker and a printable cheat sheet.
Building through letters already on the board? Fill in what you can see. Board letters are not taken from your rack. All boxes are optional.
Blank tiles show in lowercase and score 0, underlined letters are already on the board, and +35 marks a word that uses all 7 tiles. Points are tile values only; premium squares are not counted. Words come from the public-domain ENABLE list. The game’s own dictionary is based on a similar list but is not identical, so a word here may occasionally be refused in the game, and the other way round (for example, ENABLE has no QI or ZA, which the game is known to accept). Independent helper — not affiliated with Zynga or Words With Friends.
Is this word playable?
Printable cheat sheet
Two-letter words, Q words without U, short J, X and Z words and the best 3-letter words, built from the list.
Words With Friends Cheat Sheet
Made with Crossword Print · crosswordprint.com/words-with-friends-cheat/
Words With Friends Cheat is a free word helper that lists every playable word for the letters on your rack, and it can also filter by letters already on the board. It runs in your browser, so there is no app to install and no sign-up. It works as a WWF cheat for Words With Friends 2 (WWF2) and the classic game: a word finder, a way to unscramble words from your tiles, a word creator for board gaps, and a word lookup for single words. It is an independent tool, not affiliated with Zynga or Words With Friends, and there are no cheat codes for the game itself.
Use it when you are stuck on a turn, check a word, or print a cheat sheet to keep next to your board.
How to use the Words With Friends Cheat
- Type the letters from your rack into “Your rack”. Use up to 7 letters. Use ? (or *, _ or .) for a blank tile. You can use at most 2 blanks.
- If letters are already on the board, add them in “Starts with”, “Ends with” or “Contains”. Board letters do not come from your rack, but they count toward the points. Tick “The Contains letters sit together, in that order” if the letters must be next to each other in that order.
- For a gap on the board, use “Pattern”. Write the board letters as they are and use ? for each square you fill from your rack, for example ??a?e.
- Check the results. Each word must use at least one rack tile. If your rack is empty, the board boxes alone list every matching word.
- Pick a sort order: “Highest points first” (the default) or “Grouped by length”.
- Read each word’s points. Blank letters appear in lowercase and score 0. Board letters are underlined. A +35 badge marks words that use all 7 rack tiles.
- To check specific words, open “Is this word playable?” and type up to 60 words, separated by spaces or commas.
Points are tile values only. Premium squares (double or triple letter and word) are not counted, so check the board yourself before you play. Use “Show Cheat Sheet” and then “Print Cheat Sheet” to print a reference page. The printed cheat sheet is free to use, including commercially.
What are the letter values in words with friends?
The classic Words With Friends letter values are: J, Q and Z 10 points each; X 8; K and V 5; B, C, F, M, P and W 4; G, H and Y 3; D, L, N and U 2; and A, E, I, O, R, S and T 1 each. A blank tile scores 0. Knowing these values tells you which tiles are worth saving for a premium square.
What are the two-letter words in words with friends?
The word list used here has 96 two-letter words. Some of the most useful are XI, XU, OX, AX and JO. They are useful because you can place a high-value tile on a premium square and score in both directions at once. The cheat sheet prints all 96 so you can scan them quickly.
Is QI or ZA a word in words with friends?
The game accepts QI and ZA, but the ENABLE word list used by this tool does not include them. So the “Is this word playable?” checker will show them as “not in the list”. The game’s own dictionary is based on a similar list but is not identical, so a word can occasionally be refused in the game when it appears here, and the other way round.
How does the 35-point bonus work?
Using all 7 tiles from your rack in one move earns a 35-point bonus on top of the word’s tile values. For example, QUARTES scores 17 from its tiles and 52 with the bonus. The tool marks these words with a +35 badge. A 7-tile word is often worth more than any single short play, so it is worth looking for one when your rack is strong.
What are the best tips for words with friends?
Save your J, Q, X and Z tiles for squares where they can score. These four letters are worth 8 to 10 points each, and two-letter words such as XI, XU, OX, AX and JO give you a way to play them. Keep a balance of vowels and consonants on your rack, because a rack of all consonants or all vowels limits your options. Also look at the highest-scoring three-letter words on the cheat sheet, such as ZAX (19) and ZEK (16), when you want a quick high score.
How do blank tiles change a search?
A blank tile can stand for any letter, so it greatly increases the number of words you can make. For example, the rack JAOXE?? (two blanks) gives 1,766 words. With one blank, JEUX scores 19 and JINX scores 18. Blank letters are shown in lowercase and score 0, so a word with a blank can be worth less than its letters suggest, but it can still fit a gap you need to fill.
Frequently asked questions
Is Words With Friends Cheat cheating?
The tool is an independent word helper, and it is not connected to your game account. Whether using a helper is allowed depends on the rules you agree with the people you play against, so agree on it with them before you start.
Is it free?
Yes. The tool is free and runs in your browser.
Is anything sent anywhere when I search?
No. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. The search is saved only in the address bar, so you can keep the link if you want.
Can I upload a screenshot of my board?
No. The tool does not read screenshots. Type the letters from your rack into “Your rack”, and type any board letters into the board boxes or the Pattern box, using ? for each square you need to fill.
Does the tool count premium squares?
No. Points are tile values only, so double and triple letter and word squares are not included in the totals. Check the board yourself for those bonuses.
Why is a word refused in the game but shown here, or the other way round?
The tool uses the ENABLE word list, and the game’s dictionary is similar but not identical. A word can be accepted in one and refused in the other, and QI and ZA are examples of words the game accepts but this list does not have.
Do I need to install an app to use it?
No. There is no app to install and no sign-up. Open the page in your browser and start typing letters.
Can I use the printed cheat sheet for commercial purposes?
Yes. The cheat sheet and the word lists you make here are free to use for any purpose, including club handouts, KDP books or Etsy printables, royalty-free and with no attribution needed. The only limit is that you may not copy the tool itself to run a competing service.
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- 7 Letter Words: use it when you want a list of seven-letter words, such as for a 7-tile bonus play.
- Crossword Solver: use it when you have a crossword clue pattern with some letters already filled in.
About Words with Friends
Words with Friends is a multiplayer computer word game developed by Newtoy. Players take turns building words crossword-puzzle style in a manner similar to the classic board game Scrabble. The rules of the two games are similar, but Words with Friends is not associated with the Scrabble brand. Up to 40 games can be played simultaneously using push notifications to alert players when it is their turn. Players may look up friends either by username or via Facebook; they're able to be randomly assigned an opponent through "Smart Match" as well. Players can find potential opponents using Community Match.
Released in July 2009, Words with Friends is available for cross-platform play on devices running the operating systems Android, Windows Phone, and iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch). The game is also available on Facebook, Kindle Fire, and Nook Tablet. In addition, there is a chat feature built into the game that allows opponents to exchange messages. Between 2010 and 2011, Words with Friends was one of the top ranking games in the iOS app store, available as both a free ad-supported version and a paid version with no "third party ads between turns". As of May 2017, Words with Friends was the most popular mobile game in the United States. A sequel to the game, Words with Friends 2, came out in September 2017.
Gameplay
The rules of the game are mostly the same as those of two-player Scrabble, with a few differences such as the arrangement of premium squares and the distribution and point values of some of the letters (see Scrabble letter distributions and point values). Players are given seven randomly chosen letter tiles, which are replenished until all 104 tiles have been used. Players take turns forming words on the board or, instead of playing a word, may also choose to swap tiles with the pool of currently unused tiles or pass their turn. Players can form words either vertically or horizontally on the board. The player's aim is to score as many points as possible.
A letter placed on a DL or TL square doubles or triples the value of that letter on all words formed using that square. Similarly, the DW and TW squares double and triple the value of the new word(s) using that square. If a player uses all seven tiles on a single play (known as a bingo in Scrabble), 35 bonus points are added - this contrasts with the 50 bonus points in Scrabble. The different arrangement of premium squares can lead to scoring situations that would be rare or impossible in a typical Scrabble game. For example, it is possible to place a new word that simultaneously covers a triple letter score (TL) and a triple word score (TW), or a new word that covers a double word score (DW) and a triple word score (TW), which would be impossible or nearly impossible in a Scrabble game.
The game ends when a player plays every tile in his or her rack, and there are no remaining tiles to draw. The game also ends if three scoreless moves (i.e., passes or tile exchanges) are played in succession, unless the score is zero-zero. After playing the last tile, the opposing player will lose all the points equal to the amount of the remaining tiles. This number of points will be awarded to the player who played the last tile. At the end of the game, the player with the highest score wins.
There are various versions of Words With Friends. All versions allow players to resign their turn with the "resign" feature, pass their turn with the "pass" feature, swap out one or more tiles and forfeit the current turn with the "swap" feature, or look up what tiles remain with the "tile bag" feature. The "word strength" feature can be turned on or off, and enables players to see how strong their placed word is relative to all other word combinations available on the current board. In 2016, Zynga (temporarily) removed a feature called "hindsight" which allowed a player to pay for the opportunity to see what the highest-scoring moves on the board were after the play was made, but has since brought it back. In addition to the "hindsight" power-up, the game also offers other power-ups known as "swap+," "word radar," and "word clue."
Words with Friends accepts 173,000 words in the game. The word list used by the game is based on the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon (ENABLE), with some additions from the developers.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Words with Friends” (revision 1360243573, 2026-06-20), authors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Shortened: some sections and paragraphs were left out, and reference markers, images and templates were removed; wording is otherwise unchanged. This text remains available under the same licence.