Words with friends word building

If you are running out of ideas on decent words to play, this Words With Friends Word Builder is your ticket to higher point totals and better results. Simply type in each letter in your rack and click on submit. To your left, you should see the complete list of all possible word combinations for your consideration.

Keep in mind that if you want to play a word off of a particular letter already on the board, you need to put that letter into the “RACK” field and also type it into the Prefix (if you want to start off the word with the letter already played) or into the Suffix (if you want the letter played to end your word).

Be sure to note the number of tiles that are open for you to play a word and look at the options for that amount. You can’t lose if you’re using the Words With Friends Cheat Word Builder!

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Planning

Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

Creating or adding to a word in Words With Friends is not a task to be taken lightly. The points a player can earn from a word vastly differs depending on which tiles he places his letter blocks on. Special tiles can either double or triple the points for the specific letter on the tile or the entire word, which can have a serious impact on his score. It is important to carefully examine letters before using them to determine what words he can create and where the words would best fit on the game board, as well as which of the words are worth the most points.

There are a number of different strategies and approaches the player may employ to help do this. For example, he may identify the highest value letter block he has and attempt to form words with that specific letter. Or, he may locate a special tile on the game board he wishes to use, such as «triple word», and attempt to create a word that manages to use that tile. He may even combine both strategies to earn substantial points, using high value letters on special tiles. By using Planning skills to formulate various strategies, the player can ensure he scores form high-scoring words and challenges his opponent to a tough game.

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

When a player is motivated to build high-scoring words, a great deal of thinking must go into deciding «what word and where.» Additionally, the player must decide whether to add to an existing word on the game board or try to build an entirely new one. With so many options and factors to consider, it is sometimes challenging to decide on how and where to start. It is here that Focus skills come into play, as the player must effectively create words and identify the best places to put them. There are many factors to consider, and the player must decide how best to make a well-calculated move. Words With Friends provides varying amount of difficulty depending on opponent, and highly-skilled players will truly test a player’s attention and focus.

Use this form to build words to use in the game Words With Friends for your iPhone or iPad. This site helps you win games. This is the fastest, most accurate Words With Friends Builder on the net.

How to use our Words With Friends Builder

Standard Word Builder:
1. Enter your Rack letters in the top form field, titled, “Rack”
2. Click the “Search” button

Word Builder With Prefix:
1. Enter your Rack letters in the top form field, titled, “Rack”
2. Enter the Prefix string in the Prefix form field
3. Make sure that all letters in the Prefix field are also included in the Rack field
4. Click the “Search” button

Word Builder With Suffix:
1. Enter your Rack letters in the top form field, titled, “Rack”
2. Enter the Suffix string in the Suffix form field
3. Make sure that all letters in the Suffix field are also included in the Rack field
4. Click the “Search” button

Word Builder With Prefix and Suffix:
1. Enter your Rack letters in the top form field, titled, “Rack”
2. Enter the Prefix string in the Prefix form field
3. Enter the Suffix string in the Suffix form field
4. Select the “And” radio button
5. Make sure that all letters in the Prefix and Suffix fields are also included in the Rack field
6. Click the “Search” button

Use this form to build words to use in the game Words With Friends for your iPhone or iPad. This site helps you win games. This is the fastest, most accurate Words With Friends Builder on the net.

How to use our Words With Friends Builder

Standard Word Builder:
1. Enter your Rack letters in the top form field, titled, “Rack”
2. Click the “Search” button

Word Builder With Prefix:
1. Enter your Rack letters in the top form field, titled, “Rack”
2. Enter the Prefix string in the Prefix form field
3. Make sure that all letters in the Prefix field are also included in the Rack field
4. Click the “Search” button

Word Builder With Suffix:
1. Enter your Rack letters in the top form field, titled, “Rack”
2. Enter the Suffix string in the Suffix form field
3. Make sure that all letters in the Suffix field are also included in the Rack field
4. Click the “Search” button

Word Builder With Prefix and Suffix:
1. Enter your Rack letters in the top form field, titled, “Rack”
2. Enter the Prefix string in the Prefix form field
3. Enter the Suffix string in the Suffix form field
4. Select the “And” radio button
5. Make sure that all letters in the Prefix and Suffix fields are also included in the Rack field
6. Click the “Search” button

Your Ultimate Guide to Winning at Words With Friends

Thanks for taking the time to check out my Words With Friends Tips and Strategy page. As you can see, I’m a geek in many ways, not just photography. I started playing Words With Friends on my iPhone about a year ago, and I’ve been addicted ever since. In the time I’ve been playing Words With Friends, I’ve developed a few strategies of my own to share with you here today.

What is Words With Friends?

Words With Friends is a crossword game made for mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android), and is based on the popular board game Scrabble. The basic directions can be found HERE. There are a few key differences between Words With Friends and Scrabble that I’d like to point out. It’s important to recognize these differences because you might be able to use them to your advantage. 

1. You are not playing face to face with your opponents. You could plausibly be playing against someone on the other side of the world!
2. A game is not completed in one sitting. It can last hours, days, weeks, or even months.

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1.  There are no challenges. When you are playing a word, you can use trial and error as many times as you need, until you find a word that works.
2.  The tile distribution and count is slightly different. See the chart below:

1.  While both boards are 15×15 squares, the layout is a bit different, as shown in the images below:

Wording With Friends – Ground Rules

Keeping a 2-Letter Word List

Because of some of the new dynamics mentioned above, the friends that I play with regularly and I have agreed to a few rule clarifications for ease of play. First, we are allowed to keep a list of all 2 letter words. Since we are able to use trial and error to find words, it saves a ton of time to know what all the two-letter words are. If you use a list long enough, you will probably end up memorizing it anyway.

Sometimes the makers of Words with Friends add and delete words from its dictionary. Click over to my article 2 Letter Words For Scrabble and Words With Friends to view an updated (2020) list of two-letter words.

Keeping Track of Missing Tiles

Second, we have deemed it acceptable to keep track of the missing tiles if we like – much like counting cards in Blackjack. We figure that since there can be a relatively large amount of time between turns, why not use the time to keep track of what tiles have and have not been played yet. None of us ever really do this early in a game, or even in the middle. But as the game is nearing the end and it looks like it could be particularly close, we will definitely do it. I’m not sure if there is a rule that addresses this in regular Scrabble, but we’ve made it clear that it’s ok here. I put together a spreadsheet that takes care of this for me. Click the link below and you can use it too! You will need at least Microsoft Excel 97 to use the spreadsheet.

Handy Dandy Words With Friends Letter Counter (clicking this link will download a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet)

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It’s a good thing to agree on a few ground rules with the friends you play with regularly. In my group of friends, we have deemed it acceptable to keep the two-letter word list and keep track of tiles if we want, but NOT acceptable to use Words With Friends cheats, word generators or any other word lists, which are readily available online. If you and your friends agree that it’s ok to use word generators, my favorite one is wineverygame.com. I’m sure there are plenty of other good ones.

As I said before, in the time that I’ve been playing, I’ve developed some of my own Words With Friends tips and strategy that I will share with you here. Hopefully it will give you an edge against your opponents as well.

Lay *Along* Beats Lay Across

Let’s say your opponent plays AROSE. You have letters in your tray that spell “POWER”. You could use the “O” in AROSE and lay the P, W, E and R downward across it, for a cool 11 points…OR…you could you could lay POWER along the top of AROSE to create multiple new words (POWER, PA, OR, WO, ES, and RE) for a total of 26 points!

Start Small

It never fails, you play a 5 letter word to start the game, and your experienced opponent puts a nice lay-along next to it, effectively scoring double for his word and single for YOUR word too. When I start a game, I like to start with a 2 letter word, and use that turn to dump my two least desirable letters. Let your opponent be the first to open the board up.

Work the Colored Squares

The best way to maximize the value of your tiles is to play them on the colored squares. On the board, you can find Double Letter (DL), Double Word (DW), Triple Letter (TL), and Triple Word (TW). I like to call the TL and TW the “High-Dollar” Squares. Always look for the accessibility of these squares on the board – even before you examine your tray. Look for plays using these squares and try to work your letters to fit those plays. Even better, try and find plays that combine multiple letter scores with multiple word scores. Let’s say you play the word PARK on 4 Blank squares. You will score 11 points. Now let’s say you play where the “P” is on a TL and the “K” is on a TW. The score for this play will jump all the way up to 57 points!

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Look for Vowels Next to Colored Squares.

Let’s say your opponent plays PLANE, and there is a TL directly above the “A”. You notice this, then upon examining your tray you notice that you have a “Z”. Remembering from the 2 letter word list that ZA is a valid word, you know you can play the “Z” on the TL, to create ZA for a total score of 31 points. Now you take it one step further and notice that you also have an “E” and an “N” in your tray. Now you can play ZEN in a lay-along above PLANE, creating ZA, ZEN, EN and NE, for a total of 70 points!

Bingo Was His Name-O

When you play all 7 tiles in your tray in one turn, it’s called a “Bingo.” Not only do you get the points for the word(s) you made, but you also get a 35 point bonus! If you can mix that with a few colored squares in the right places, then it’s not out of the question to score in the 100’s on one single play! One of the keys to winning games consistently is learning how to make Bingos. It takes a bit of practice, but the more you play, the more you will develop strategies that will help you create more and more Bingos. When I first started playing, I was lucky to average one Bingo for every 10 games played. Now I’d say I average about 9 Bingos for every 10 games, and I’m continuing to improve. Read on for some of my strategies for creating Bingos.

Defense Wins Games

Just as you will be looking for plays around the High-Dollar squares, your experienced opponent will be doing the same. Don’t give him the opening, even if it means you have to play a lesser word elsewhere. Unless I know I’m going to score big with my play, I generally try to avoid opening the TW TL areas for play. Even a 40 point play might not be worth opening up one of those areas, knowing that he could potentially score 50 or even more points by taking full advantage of the opening.

S’s are Precious. And so are BLANKs

The “S” and the BLANK are important tiles in the game. The “S” is important because it can be played at the end of so many words. If you have a word in your tray that contains an “S”, then you can place it at the end of a word that is already on the board, and play the remaining tiles for your word around it. Let’s say your opponent played COFFEE. In your tray you notice the word VEST. You could play VEST across one of the E’s in COFFEE, for a total of 8 points. I consider this to be wasting your S. If you look closer, you could put the S at the end of COFFEE and play the V, E and T around it, and score 24 points, with COFFEES and VEST! Mix in a few colored squares and you can easily clear 30 points.

Many people like to employ this strategy with the “Y” as well. I personally find that there aren’t nearly as many opportunities to use the “Y” in this way as there are for the “S”, so I generally treat the “Y” as just another letter. The BLANKS can work in the same way. Not only can you use them as an “S” to connect two words, but you can also use them as the missing link for a word you are working on in your tray. I’d say the BLANK is responsible for about 50% of all the Bingos I make. As a general rule of thumb, I try not to use an S or a BLANK unless they are directly responsible for scoring at least 30 points for me.

Swapping Tiles: All or Nothing

Swapping tiles is an art. Generally speaking, I swap tiles when there are no plays that I can make that will get me more than 15 or so points, and the letters in my tray don’t figure to offer any more help in the near future. Never try to swap tiles in order to create a word that you are trying to formulate in your tray. That will only lead to heartache, trust me. When I need to swap, I like to swap ALL 7 tiles, with a few exceptions: I never swap out the following letters:

S: See above
BLANK: See above
J, Q, X, and Z: these tiles are crucial in determining the winner. Never give them up if you have them. Giving them up gives your opponent a chance to use them with the colored squares for maximum value. I’d rather play one of those tiles on a blank square just to get rid of it before I see my opponent take advantage of it on the High-Dollar squares.
“ER” or “ED”: I’m a big fan of ER and ED. These combinations are very versatile in that they can be attached to the beginning or end of many 5 letter words, to make a Bingo. I would say that those two combinations are responsible for helping me with the other 50% of my Bingos.

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Keep The Letters Moving

A high tile turnover rate is good for your tray. It increases the chance of getting J, Q, X and Z, and decreases your opponent’s chance of getting them and using them against you. If all other variables are equal (points, leave, etc.), play the bigger word over the smaller word if you have a choice.

Saving Letters Is Dangerous

It’s generally not a good idea to save letters while you wait on other letters to show up for a word. I’m not going to lie and say that I’ve never done it, but I do try and keep it at a minimum. Sometimes it is just too tempting. Obviously you have the best chances of a good score when you have all seven letters to choose from on each turn. For each letter that you hold back, you are potentially limiting your score for that play. If you do choose to save letters, try and keep it at a minimum, and if the letters you need don’t show up within 2 or 3 turns, cut your losses and stop waiting.

Further Reading on 2-Letter Words

It’s important to know the two-letter words because they can be used in a pinch, or as a connector to a much larger word. For reference, I’ve written an article that I like to call The Ultimate 2 Letter Words List 🙂 (updated in 2020).

Conclusion

Hopefully you found these Words With Friends tips useful. I’ll continue to make additions/changes to this document as my strategy and skill level evolves. Let me know if you disagree with anything I said, or if you find any errors.

Good Luck, and Happy Wording!

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Words with Friends is a popular online game by Zynga similar to scrabble. What sets this game apart is in its title: you can play with your friends or other word game enthusiasts all over the world. This provides endless entertainment because you can have up to 30 games going at once. You’ll never run out of live opponents which keeps your puzzle-solving skills sharp.

The Basic Rules of the Game

There are some subtle differences between Words with Friends and Scrabble, but the rules are generally the same. Let’s talk about some of the main rules of Word With Friends to help you get started.

• 1. The first word is made by the challenger or the person who starts the game.
• 2. The first word is started on the + symbol in the center of the board.
• 3. Words can only be played horizontally and vertically.
• 4. All new words must connect to existing words on the board, just like scrabble.

Another fun aspect of Words with Friends is that you can chat with your opponent while playing the game. This is an enjoyable way to pass time with friends or even make new friends that were once random opponents.

The best way to improve at a game is with practice and time, but there are some tips and tricks to give you an edge when playing Words with Friends.

Learn the Board, Especially the Bonus Tiles

Strategy is everything in Words with Friends. When you place a word for your move, you should be thinking ahead about what opportunities you’re giving your opponent. For example, if you place the word POST horizontally on the board, you’re giving your opponent an open S and T to build many longer words than they would’ve with other letters. If there is a lot of space above your POST on the board, your opponent can make a plural form of just about any word, and they’re more likely to get a bonus tile alone the way.

If you’re familiar with chess, you’ll understand the requirement to think ahead and try and “read your opponent’s mind” to win the game. Every move you make whilst playing Words with Friends should be well thought out. Always be a few steps ahead of your challenger!

Pay Attention to Your Word Placement on the Board

Going off the previous tip, remember that there should be intention behind every move you make in a game of Words With Friends. If you’ve followed our first tip, you’ll have a good understanding of where the bonus tiles are on the board. Every time you make a move, consider what opportunities you’re giving your opponent. Is there a Triple Word tile next to an easy letter like S? Notice how all the triple letter tiles are on the outer edges of the board. When you’ve reached that part of the game, opportunities for long words are less, so be aware of giving your opponent an opportunity to form a 2 or 3 letter word with a triple word tile. Instead, place a more difficult letter to form a short word with, such as J.

Use Hooks to Score Big

What are hooks? Hooks are the technique of adding one or two letters onto a preexisting word on the board to form a new word. You can do this by changing the tense of a word or making it plural. If you have the letters ED, ET, ES, or just S, take note. You can use those letters to make a hook. If the original word you hook off of has high scoring letters in it, you’ll get the points from those with just a few letters!

Play Words Towards the Center, Not the Edges

When I first discovered this tip, it was like a lightbulb went off in my head. If you look at an empty Words With Friends board, you’ll notice that the bonus tiles are in a diamond shape and move out along the edges of the board. The biggest bonus tiles like the triple word tile are on the very outer edge of the board. Every time it’s your turn, see if you can play your word towards the center. When you move out to the edges, you’re giving your opponent way more opportunities to score big on bonus tiles.

The other benefit of playing towards the center is making it harder to form large words. You will set your opponent up to have less space to form words, especially long words, without running into a preexisting word on the board.

Use Your Powerups!

This seems obvious, but I’m prone to forgetting the powerups exist. Powerups are the bonus tools of Words With Friends that you use your coins to purchase. The powerups are Hindsight, Word Radar, Swap+, and Get Word Clue. Let’s explain what they mean!

Hindsight: If you’ve ever felt like your move could’ve been better, this is the powerup for you. This tool allows you to see what the best move could’ve been on your last turn. This is a great way to learn and improve at the game.

Word Radar: If you use this before your turn, it will show you the space where the longest word can be played. It’s your job to figure out which letters to use in that space!

Swap+: Use this powerup to swap all your tiles with new ones.

Get Word Clue: This clue will tell you which letters to use and which space to put them in. All you need to do is unjumble the letters to get the best possible word for your turn.

Study Up on Words

If you read a lot or have a large vocabulary, it may give you an edge in the game. To really excel at Words With Friends, you will need more than that! You will need to study and memorize words that will specifically help you in this game. At most, you’ll only have 7 letters to use each turn, which means any words longer than that aren’t of much use to you in this game.

You’re better off studying shorter words that use the higher scoring letters. How many three-letter words with the letter J do you know? What about two-letter words with the letter V? Begin memorizing some words that will help you out when playing Words With Friends. Check out these Word List where you get the curated list of words. You may even benefit from jotting them down in a little journal when you’re out and about. Those words might help you win a game one day!

We hope that these tips and tricks will help you on your journey to being a great Words With Friends player! Practice makes perfect, so the more you play, the better you’ll get. With these tips and some time, you’ll be on your way to being a champion.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Words with Friends
Developer(s)	Zynga
Platform(s)	Android, iOS, Facebook, Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, Windows Phone, Windows
Release	2009
Genre(s)	Word game
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Words with Friends is a multiplayer 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 through Facebook, or be randomly assigned an opponent through «Smart Match». Players can also 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).^[1] The game is also available on Facebook,^[2] Kindle Fire,^[3] and Nook Tablet.^[4] 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».^[5][6] As of May 2017, Words with Friends was the most popular mobile game in the United States.^[7] A sequel to the game, Words with Friends 2, came out in September 2017.

Gameplay[edit]

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.^[8] 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.»^[9]

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.^[8]

Random opponent and chat features[edit]

Since the game’s launch, the random opponent and chat features of the game have led to a number of romantic relationships. In 2009, Megan Lawless, of Chicago, began a game with a random opponent, Jasper Jasperse, who lived in the Netherlands. The two got to know one another via the game’s chat function and married in July 2011.^[10][11]

Other couples who met via the game’s random opponent feature include Trish and David Palmer of Dacula, Georgia, who married in November 2011, and Stephen Monahan and Britney Hilbun of Texas, who became engaged to marry in December 2011.^[12]

In late 2011, it was reported that one of the game’s American players was communicating via the game’s chat function about her Australian opponent’s husband’s medical symptoms. The American relayed these symptoms to her husband, a doctor, who recommended an immediate hospital visit. The opponent’s husband found he had a 99% blockage close to his heart. On a 2012 episode of the American TV show, The Doctors, the couples were introduced to each other for the first time.^[13][14]

The board game[edit]

In 2012, Zynga, in conjunction with Hasbro, released several physical board game versions of Words with Friends under the «Hasbro Gaming» imprint. These include a standard version, a «Luxe» edition with rotating fitted tile gameboard (similar to the deluxe editions of Scrabble), and a «To Go» travel edition.^[15][16][17]

This is one of several games in the Zynga game library to be released as physical board game versions. Others include Draw Something, a CityVille edition of Monopoly, and several kids’ games based on FarmVille.^[18]

Privacy issues[edit]

In October 2019, it was announced that the hack of social game developer Zynga had compromised the details of 218 million Words with Friends accounts. Details accessed include players’ names, email addresses, login IDs, hashed passwords, password reset tokens, phone numbers, Facebook IDs and Zynga account IDs.^[19]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Arneson, Erik (26 June 2019). «How To Win at Scrabble and Words With Friends: How to Practice, Play, and Win Strategically». The Spruce Crafts.

External links[edit]

• Official website