Hidden inside faithless sit faithless and flashiest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 438 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
faithless and flashiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from faithless at 15 points. The top 10 of 438 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in faithless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and faithless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are faithless and flashiest, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faithless. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are heliasts, sealifts, and shaliest, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in faithless produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falsest, flashes, and selfish. For points, the strongest plays are flashes, hisself, leftish, and selfish — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling faithless turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, faiths, fishes, itself, safest, shiest, and shifts. For points, the strongest plays are elfish, faiths, fashes, fetish, filths, fishes, shafts, sheafs, and shifts — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 118 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faithless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, ashes, fails, faith, false, fates, and files. For points, the strongest plays are faith, filth, flash, flesh, hafts, hefts, shaft, sheaf, shelf, shift, and thief — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in faithless produces 134 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, fail, fast, fate, felt, and file. For points, the strongest plays are fahs, fash, fehs, fish, haft, half, and heft — 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 faithless turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, ate, eat, elf, fat, and fit. For points, the strongest plays are fah and feh — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faithless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ef, eh, fa, fe, ha, he, hi, if, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in faithless plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in faithless and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
faithless 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 faithless carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for faithless. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
faithless is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing faithless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are faithless and flashiest, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faithless 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 faithless produce 438 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 118 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.