Hidden inside fardest is one standout: strafed, a seven-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 197 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
FARDEST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to STRAFED (verb, form of strafe), to attack with machine-gun fire from an airplane, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
strafed is the highest-scoring word from fardest, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 197 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling fardest produces exactly one seven-letter word: strafed. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fardest turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster, stared, and trades. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including dafter, defats and drafts.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fardest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, dares and dates. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including defat, draft and fader.
Rearranging the letters in fardest produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, daft and deft.
Unscrambling fardest turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fardest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in fardest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fardest 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 play from these letters is strafed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fardest 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 fardest produce 197 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 15 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.