Hidden inside faience sit faience and fiancee, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
faience and fiancee tie for the highest Scrabble score from faience at 12 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in faience: one comes from rearranging its letters, and faience itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are faience and fiancee, 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 faience turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fiance. For points, the strongest plays are enface and fiance — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faience. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fence and niece. For points, the strongest plays are fence and finca — 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 faience produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe, face, fine, and nice. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, face, and fice — 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 faience turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, fan, fee, and ice. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faience. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, if, and in. 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 faience and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
faience 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 faience. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
faience is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing faience unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are faience and fiancee, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faience 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 faience produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.