Hidden inside falteur sit refutal and tearful, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
FALTEUR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to REFUTAL and TEARFUL.
refutal and tearful tie for the highest Scrabble score from falteur at 10 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in falteur produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are refutal and tearful, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling falteur turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are artful, earful, falter and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in falteur. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, alert and alter. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including after, fault and flute.
Rearranging the letters in falteur produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fate, fear and felt. For points, 25 words tie at 7 points, including fate, fear and felt.
Unscrambling falteur turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including elf, far and fat.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in falteur. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in falteur plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in falteur and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are refutal and tearful, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from falteur 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 falteur produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.