Players exchange turns forming words horizontally or vertically on the board, trying to score as many points as possible for each word.
Words With Friends has more than 173,000 acceptable English words for use in the game. Our list is based on the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon (ENABLE), a public domain list used by many word games.
Tap here to visit the site where the original ENABLE list resides.
All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: proper nouns (words always capitalized), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone or words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe. We've added a few of our own words to game such as ‘zen’ and ‘texting,’ and more words may be added in the future.
Definitions are provided by Dictionary.com
Words With Friends uses the Oxford Spanish word lists. It includes Castellano as well as other varieties of American Spanish.
All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: proper nouns (words always capitalized), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone or words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe.
All diacritics are ignored but Ñ is accepted. K and W are absent and they cannot be used as blank tiles. There are no tiles containing LL, RR or CH letters. Two single letters will be used to represent them..
Words With Friends uses the Oxford Italian word lists.
All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: proper nouns (words always capitalized), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone or words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe.
All diacritics are ignored. The letters J, K, W, X and Y are absent and cannot be used in-game, or replaced by a blank tile.
Words With Friends uses the Oxford Brazilian Portuguese word lists.
All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: proper nouns (words always capitalized), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone or words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe.
While Ç is a separate tile, other diacritical marks are ignored. K, W and Y are absent and can not be used to replace blank tiles.
Words With Friends use Oxford German word lists.
All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: proper nouns (words always capitalized), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone or words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe.
All diacritics, except umlauts (Ä, Ö and Ü), are ignored. Umlauts (Ä, Ö and Ü) are accepted and can not be substituted for correspondent ligatures (AE, OE or UE). Eszett (ß) is not accepted and is replaced by SS using 2 tiles.
Words With Friends use Oxford French word lists.
All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: proper nouns (words always capitalized), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone or words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe.
All diacritics are ignored. Ligatures are represented with two letters: Œ becomes OE, and Æ becomes AE.
Words With Friends use Oxford British English word lists.
All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: proper nouns (words always capitalized), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone or words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe.
All diacritics are ignored.
Dictionary: You can search the definition of an unfamiliar word (currently available for English only).
Hindsight: Hindsight shows the best possible word that you could have played. It helps you to improve your tile choice and word placement.
Word Strength: With Word strength, you can check if the word you form is valid in Words with Friends and how strong it is.
Tile bag: Tile bag shows the letters that have not been distributed yet, including those in your opponent’s rack at the moment. It costs 5 coins and you can use it as many times as you want, but only during one turn.