Hidden inside facer sit facer and farce, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
facer and farce tie for the highest Scrabble score from facer at 10 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in facer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and facer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are facer and farce, 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 facer produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe, care, face, fear, and race. For points, the strongest plays are cafe and face — 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 facer turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, and far. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in facer. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words 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 facer and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
facer 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 1-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 facer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
facer is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing facer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are facer and farce, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from facer 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 facer produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.