conference needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conference is the highest-scoring word from conference, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in conference — and it is conference itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling conference produces exactly one eight-letter word: conferee. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in conference produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with concern. For points, the strongest plays are enforce and refence — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling conference turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are confer, fencer, and fennec, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conference. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: fence and force, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in conference produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, core, corn, free, none, and once. For points, the strongest play is corf — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling conference turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, fee, for, nor, and one. For points, the strongest plays are fee, fen, fer, foe, fon, for, fro, and ref — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conference. 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in conference plus one additional letter.
conference 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for conference. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
conference is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing conference unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is conference, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from conference 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 conference produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.