Words With Friends Practice
Set up a position, work out the best move yourself, and unlock hints only when you are stuck. Reading strategy changes very little; finding the play with your own eyes changes a lot.
Find the highest-scoring move you can play right now.
Or tap a square and type. Nothing is uploaded.
Board size is 15 by 15.
Unseen tiles
104 of 104 tiles are still unseen (bag + opponent racks).
- A9
- B2
- C2
- D5
- E13
- F2
- G3
- H4
- I8
- J1
- K1
- L4
- M2
- N5
- O8
- P2
- Q1
- R6
- S5
- T7
- U4
- V2
- W2
- X1
- Y2
- Z1
- ?2
Enter the tiles already on the board, add your rack, then press Find best moves. Everything runs on your device.
How to get value out of it
Use real positions. Take a screenshot of a game you are in the middle of, read it into the screenshot solver, then switch to practice with the board still there. Guessing on a position you actually care about is worth ten invented ones.
Take the score hint first and stop. Knowing a 46 exists changes how you look at the board — you stop hunting for long words and start hunting for a premium square with two words running through it. Most of the value is in that shift, not in the answer.
The habits worth drilling
- Look sideways before you look long. A four-tile play alongside an existing word can form four short words at once, each collecting its own premium.
- Count to seven. Before anything else, check whether the rack can use all of it. Thirty-five points is worth thirty seconds.
- Price the rack, not the word. J, Q, X and Z are worth eight or ten here. A short word that plays one of them onto a triple letter square routinely beats a long word that plays none.
More Words With Friends tools
- Words With Friends SolverEnter your board and rack, get every legal move ranked by score.
- WWF Screenshot SolverUpload a screenshot and let the board read itself.
- WWF Word FinderType your letters, see every word you can make.
- WWF Move AnalyzerScore the move you played and see what you missed.
- WWF PracticeFind the best move yourself, one hint at a time.
- WWF Dictionary CheckerIs that word playable? Check it instantly.
Common questions
How is this different from the solver?
The solver hands you the answer. Practice hides it and gives you hints one at a time — the score, then the length, then the first letter, then where it starts. You stop taking hints the moment you see the play.
Where do the positions come from?
You set them up: type a board and a rack, or paste in a position from a real game. Nothing is generated for you, which means you can practise the situations you actually keep losing points in.
What should I practise?
The things that recur. Parallel plays that form three short words at once, hooks that turn an existing word into a longer one, and whether a rack of seven can use all of them. Those three account for most of the points ordinary players leave behind.
Word validity is checked against an open reference dictionary. Word acceptance may vary slightly from the current in-game dictionary. TilePlayCoach is an independent word-game helper and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Zynga.