Hidden inside confreres sit confreres, enforcers, and reconfers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confreres, enforcers, and reconfers tie for the highest Scrabble score from confreres at 14 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in confreres: two come from rearranging its letters, and confreres itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are confreres, enforcers, and reconfers, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confreres. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are confrere, enforcer, enforces, frescoer, and reconfer, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in confreres produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corners. For points, the strongest plays are confers, enforce, fencers, and forcers — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling confreres turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner, fences, forces, refers, and screen. For points, the strongest plays are confer, fencer, fences, forcer, forces, and fresco — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confreres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones, cores, corns, feces, fence, force, and freer. For points, the strongest plays are feces, fence, and force — each 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 confreres produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons, core, corn, fees, free, and nose. 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 confreres turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, fee, for, nor, one, see, and son. For points, the strongest plays are efs, fee, fen, fer, fes, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confreres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, of, on, or, and so. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in confreres plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in confreres and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
confreres 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 one sense for confreres. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
confreres is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confreres unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are confreres, enforcers, and reconfers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from confreres 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 confreres produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.