Words With Friends Cheat

Words with Friends Cheat is a word generator tool that unscrambles your rack of 7 random letters into words you can use for the popular Zynga game.  This simple tool generates all the possible words from your letters from the official word lists. Then you choose the high-scoring words that work for you.

You can play Words With Friends for free on iPhone, Android, iPad, iPod Touch, or a desktop computer. The Words With Friends game is heavily based on the board game Scrabble (by Hasbro and Mattel). In either game, the player with the highest score wins. Some people use a word cheat tool to win or at least get better scores.

What is the best Words With Friends cheat? The best WWF cheat is our Word Unscrambler which can help you win every game of WWF.

When to Use Cheats

A Word With Friends or Scrabble word finder can be useful when:

When you need to use a word finder, just enter the letters you have into the search bar and hit the search button. It’s that simple!

Your Guide to Words With Friends

Words with Friends is a popular word game available on the App Store, Play Store, and online with a browser. Released in 2009, WWF is a simple game to play, but it’s difficult to master without some help.

You can play up to 30 games at a time with friends and strangers from around the world. Instead of losing every game, you could use some Words With Friends help, including this WWF and Scrabble cheat tool or simply follow the strategies we outline below.

Before we get into the tips and tricks to winning, here’s your basic guide to playing Words With Friends.

Rules

Words With Friends has similar rules to Scrabble. You form words off a rack of 7 random letters and score points based on letter point values and bonus squares.

The Words With Friends dictionary is more lenient than the Scrabble dictionary, but some critics think WWF’s dictionary is inconsistent.

The game ends when one player runs out of letters or resigns. Whoever has the most points wins.

Gameplay

  1. Set up: Each player starts with 7 letter tiles randomly assigned by the app.

  2. Place word: Take turns placing words on the board. You must use 1-7 of your letters, which all must line up to form a single word.

  3. Score points: When you place your letters and finish your turn, the app tallies up your points. Each letter is worth a different point amount, determined by the little number in the corner of each letter. If the word you place adds to a word already on the board, you get to count that word’s points as well.

  4. Remember bonuses: Pay attention to the bonus tiles: 

    • Double Letter: doubles the letter score

    • Triple Letter: triples the letter score

    • Double Word: doubles the full word score, including any double or triple letters

    • Triple Word: triples the full word score, including any double or triple letters

    • Bingo (using all 7 tiles at once): worth 35 bonus points

Each bonus space can only be used once, so if you make a word that intersects with an existing letter on a bonus space, you do not get that bonus.

  1. Replace letters: After every word, the app will replace the letters on your rack with new random tiles.

  2. End the game: When one player runs out of tiles, the game ends. You can also resign.

  3. Subtract leftovers: Any letter tiles you still have at the end of the game are subtracted from your score. Toward the end of the game, you want to get rid of all your tiles quickly — especially the high-value letters like X, J, Q, and Z.

  4. Determine the winner: Whoever has the most points at the end wins! People who use Word Unscramblers tend to win more.

Scoring

Just like in Scrabble, scoring is based on letter values and bonus squares.

Letter values include:

Much like the premium squares in Scrabble, WWF’s bonus squares can double or triple your letter values or word values.

Instead of the X and V’s layout in Scrabble, WWF arranges its bonus squares in diamonds.

Just like in Scrabble, once you use a bonus square, no one can use that same bonus a second time.

Strategies 

Check out these WWF strategies to get more points and win more games!

1. Prioritize bonus squares.

QI can be worth 44 points, and RETINAS may only be worth 7 points. Word length matters less than the point value of your letters and the bonus squares you use.

When taking your turn, look for bonus squares.

If you have access to a triple letter (TL) square, think of any word that will place your highest-value letter on that bonus square.

If you have access to a double word (DW) or triple word (TW) square, it doesn’t matter where in your word the highest-value letters appear. 

2. Try to form more than one word every time.

You have to lay down letter tiles in a single connected line. However, if that single line of letters collaterally forms other words, you get those points as well.

Look at the screenshot below. If you form the word ORS (3) like so, you also form the word DO (3) for an extra 3 points.


In this second screenshot, you add an H onto the beginning of ORS to increase the value of your word, but you also add EH as an extra word. Bonus: the 3-point H placed on the DL bonus square counts as 6 points in the word HORS and 6 points in the word EH.


3. Memorize these 2-letter words.

2-letter words make the previous strategy much easier. Knowing lots of 2-letter words makes it easier to form multiple words in a turn and make it harder for your opponent to play higher-score words.

Here are 2-letter words using only vowels (no consonants):

Scrabble does not consider “Y” a vowel, but these two-letter words are still helpful to know:

Highest-scoring words with 2 letters:

4. Get more points in the first turn

As you can see from the screenshot below, the starting center square is always five spaces away from a DW bonus square.

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If you take the first turn, aim to play a 5-letter word. Use a Word Unscrambler if you need help getting to that DW bonus square. Otherwise, you’re at a huge disadvantage the rest of the game.


5. Go for a bingo.

If you use all 7 letters in your rack, you get a 35-point bonus. Especially if you have a blank tile or low-value letters, consider how to use all 7 of your letters to earn that extra 35 points.

Use a Word Unscrambler to find anagrams for your rack of letters. Word unscramblers expand your vocabulary and help you practice arranging letters in your head. You may want to make sure your opponent is ok with your using a word finder during friendly games. Word solving tools are not allowed in formal competitions.

6. Use blank tiles to reach triple word squares.

Blank tiles are worth 0 points, but they can be really useful in maximizing DW or TW bonus squares. Even though blank tiles are wild cards worth no points, you can use a blank tile to lengthen your word just enough to reach a DW or TW bonus square.

In the screenshot below, you just received a blank tile, which is the only way to reach the TW bonus square above the W.


Using a Word With Friends Word Unscrambler, you learn that TROW is a good word that can get you to the TW bonus square. Because that blank tile’s ability to become an O, you got to use a TW point bonus and get more points — plus prevent your opponent from using the bonus square.


7. Don’t give your opponent TW opportunities.

Do not form a word that would give your opponent an easy opportunity to use a TW bonus square on their next turn. This includes forming a long word that crosses two spaces away from a bonus square.

As you improve your WWF skills, avoid even giving your opponent a DW bonus square opportunity. It’s hard to avoid everything, but don’t make it easy for them.

In the screenshot below, your opponent left that I right next to a TW bonus square.


Fortunately, you have a Z to really utilize that TW. Your opponent did not follow our strategy, so now you’re winning.


Playing With Friends vs. Solo Games

Beyond playing with real-life humans, Words with Friends also lets you play with a computer.

Benefits of playing with a bot:

You can, of course, play with random strangers or friends on social media, including Facebook. When you finish a game with someone, you can rematch with them. You can also chat with your opponents.

Benefits of playing with a human:

Words With Friends vs. Scrabble

Words With Friends is a free mobile app very similar to Scrabble. Let’s go over their basic differences.

Words With Friends and Scrabble use different dictionaries. Many agree that Scrabble’s dictionary (by Hasbro Inc.) is more consistent while Words With Friends can be frustratingly inconsistent. For example, the acronym BFF is valid in Words With Friends, but not LOL.

The layouts of the boards are different.

In Scrabble, the center square where you have to build the first word is a double word bonus square. In Words With Friends, the center square is a regular square with no bonus.

Words With Friends has 104 letters in the game while Scrabble has 100 letter tiles.

A bingo (using all 7 letters at once) results in 50 bonus points in Scrabble but only 35 bonus points in Words With Friends.

Letter value differences:

Fun Facts

Brothers Paul & David Bettner created Words With Friends after their initially successful Chess With Friends. WWF is owned by Newtoy Inc. and gained popularity in that first wave of app gaming. Millions of people play WWF every day.

WWF has actually led to multiple romantic relationships. Zynga reports 1 in 10 players have gone out with someone they met on the app.

Over 58 billion words were played in the first 5 years of WWF. The most-played word is QI, which has been played more than a billion times!

Words With Friends 2 came out in Sept 2017. It’s essentially a newer version of the original that features more advanced options and more frequent updates.

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