Hidden inside afters sit afters, faster, and strafe, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
afters, faster, and strafe tie for the highest Scrabble score from afters at 9 points. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in afters: two come from rearranging its letters, and afters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster. For points, the strongest plays are afters, faster, and strafe — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in afters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates, fears, rates, safer, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are after, fares, farts, fates, fears, feast, feats, festa, fetas, frats, frets, rafts, safer, and trefa — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in afters produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, fast, and fate. For points, the strongest plays are arfs, efts, fare, fart, fast, fate, fats, fear, feat, fest, feta, fets, frae, frat, fret, raft, refs, reft, safe, serf, and tref — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling afters turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and far. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, efs, eft, far, fas, fat, fer, fes, fet, and ref — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in afters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in afters and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
afters is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in afters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for afters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
afters is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing afters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are afters, faster, and strafe, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from afters earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in afters produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.