farewells needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
farewells is the highest-scoring word from farewells, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in farewells — and it is farewells itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in farewells. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farewell and welfares, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in farewells produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is welfare, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling farewells turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falser and fellas. For points, the strongest plays are reflew and wafers — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in farewells. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, falls, false, fears, feels, fella, and fewer. For points, the strongest plays are fewer, flaws, flews, swarf, and wafer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in farewells produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, ease, else, eras, fall, fear, and feel. For points, the strongest plays are flaw and flew — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling farewells turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, ear, elf, era, far, and fee. For points, the strongest play is few — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in farewells. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ef, ew, fa, fe, and we — 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 farewells 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.
farewells 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for farewells. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
farewells is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing farewells unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is farewells, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from farewells 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 farewells produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.