failures needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
failures is the highest-scoring word from failures, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in failures — and it is failures itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in failures produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with failure. For points, the strongest plays are earfuls, failure, ferulas, and refusal — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling failures turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falser and serial. For points, the strongest plays are earful, falser, falsie, farles, ferals, ferial, ferias, ferula, feuars, filers, flairs, flares, fliers, frails, fraise, furies, fusile, ireful, lifers, and rifles — 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 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in failures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, fails, false, fears, files, fires, and flies. For points, the strongest plays are afire, alefs, alifs, fails, fairs, false, fares, farle, farls, fears, feral, feria, feuar, fiars, filar, filer, files, fires, flair, flare, fleas, flier, flies, flirs, flues, frail, fries, frise, fuels, furls, fusel, fusil, leafs, lifer, reifs, rifle, safer, serif, and sulfa — 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 failures produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, eras, fail, fair, fear, and file. For points, the strongest plays are alef, alif, arfs, fail, fair, fare, farl, feal, fear, feus, fiar, fila, file, fils, fire, firs, flea, flir, flue, flus, frae, fuel, furl, furs, fuse, leaf, lief, life, refs, reif, rife, rifs, safe, seif, self, serf, and surf — 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 failures turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, elf, era, far, and flu. For points, the strongest plays are arf, efs, elf, far, fas, fer, fes, feu, fie, fil, fir, flu, fur, ifs, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in failures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, is, and us. 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 failures and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
failures 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 seven senses for failures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
failures is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing failures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is failures, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from failures 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 failures produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.