Hidden inside faltered sit deflater, faltered, and reflated, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deflater, faltered, and reflated tie for the highest Scrabble score from faltered at 12 points. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in faltered: two come from rearranging its letters, and faltered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deflater, faltered, and reflated, 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 faltered produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered, federal, and related. For points, the strongest plays are deflate, draftee, and federal — 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 faltered turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, dealer, defeat, feared, leader, and relate. For points, the strongest plays are dafter, deafer, defeat, deflea, defter, deleaf, fardel, farted, feared, felted, flared, leafed, and rafted — 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faltered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, alert, alter, dealt, later, and trade. For points, the strongest plays are defat, defer, delft, draft, fader, fared, fated, feted, freed, and refed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in faltered produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, deaf, deal, dear, deer, and fate. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, deft, delf, fade, fard, feed, and fled — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling faltered turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, elf, and era. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 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 faltered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — 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 faltered 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.
faltered 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
faltered is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing faltered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deflater, faltered, and reflated, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faltered 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 faltered produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.