Hidden inside fair sit fair and fiar, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fair and fiar tie for the highest Scrabble score from fair at 7 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in fair: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fair itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fair. For points, the strongest plays are fair and fiar — 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 fair turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air and far. For points, the strongest plays are arf, far, fir, 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fair. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if. For points, the strongest plays are fa 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 fair and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
fair 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 fair carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seventeen senses for fair. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
fair is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fair unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fair and fiar, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fair 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 fair produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.