curfew needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curfew is the highest-scoring word from curfew, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in curfew — and it is curfew itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in curfew produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crew and cure. For points, the strongest plays are crew and curf — each 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 curfew turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, few, and fur. For points, the strongest play is few — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in curfew. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew and we. For points, the strongest plays are ef, ew, fe, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in curfew plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in curfew 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.
curfew 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 three senses for curfew. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
curfew is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing curfew unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is curfew, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from curfew 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 curfew produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.