Hidden inside faerie sit faerie and feriae, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
faerie and feriae tie for the highest Scrabble score from faerie at 9 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in faerie: one comes from rearranging its letters, and faerie itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are faerie and feriae, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faerie. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are afire, feria, and firee, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in faerie produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fair, fear, fire, and free. For points, the strongest plays are fair, fare, fear, fere, fiar, fire, frae, free, reef, reif, and rife — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling faerie turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, far, and fee. For points, the strongest plays are arf, far, fee, fer, fie, fir, ref, and rif — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faerie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — 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 faerie 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.
faerie 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in faerie carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for faerie. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
faerie is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing faerie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are faerie and feriae, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faerie 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 faerie produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.