fantasy needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ASTFANY, STAFANY or TANFAYS and you get the same 7 letters as FANTASY: so the words from FANTASY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
fantasy is the highest-scoring word from fantasy, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in fantasy — and it is fantasy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fantasy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nasty. For points, the strongest plays are antsy, nasty, satay, and tansy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fantasy produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, fans and fast. For points, the strongest play is fays — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fantasy turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and fan. For points, the strongest play is fay — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fantasy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, fa, and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in fantasy 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.
fantasy 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 fantasy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for fantasy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
fantasy is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fantasy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fantasy, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fantasy 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 fantasy produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.