Hidden inside fantasies sit fantasies and fantasise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 268 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fantasies and fantasise tie for the highest Scrabble score from fantasies at 12 points. The top 10 of 268 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in fantasies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fantasies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fantasies. For points, the strongest plays are fantasies and fantasise — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fantasies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fantasie, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fantasies produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fitness. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including fitness, antifas and fainest.
Unscrambling fantasies turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finest, safest and saints. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including finest, safest and antifa.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fantasies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fates, fists and nests. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including fates, fists and faena.
Rearranging the letters in fantasies produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east and eats. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including fans, fast and fate.
Unscrambling fantasies turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and ate. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including fan, fat and fit.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fantasies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in fantasies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fantasies 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.
fantasies 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for fantasies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
fantasies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fantasies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fantasies and fantasise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fantasies 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 fantasies produce 268 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.