confer needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confer is the highest-scoring word from confer, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in confer — and it is confer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confer. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: force, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in confer produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, core, corn, and once. For points, the strongest play is corf — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling confer turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, for, nor, and one. For points, the strongest plays are fen, fer, foe, fon, for, fro, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, of, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — 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 confer 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.
confer 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for confer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
confer is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confer 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 confer produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.