Hidden inside fakirs sit fakirs and kafirs, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fakirs and kafirs tie for the highest Scrabble score from fakirs at 13 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in fakirs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fakirs 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 fakirs and kafirs, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fakirs. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fakir, frisk, kafir, and kaifs, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fakirs produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, fair, and risk. For points, the strongest plays are kafs, kaif, and kifs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fakirs turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ask, far, sir, and ski. For points, the strongest plays are kaf and kif — each worth 10 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 fakirs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 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 fakirs 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.
fakirs 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 fakirs carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for fakirs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
fakirs is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fakirs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fakirs and kafirs, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fakirs 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 fakirs produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.