Hidden inside fare sit fare, fear, and frae, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fare, fear, and frae tie for the highest Scrabble score from fare at 7 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in fare: two come from rearranging its letters, and fare itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fear. For points, the strongest plays are fare, fear, and frae — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fare turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, and far. For points, the strongest plays are arf, far, fer, and ref — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fare. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words 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 fare and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
fare 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 fare carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for fare. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
fare is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fare unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fare, fear, and frae, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fare 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 fare produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.