Hidden inside farmer sit farmer and framer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
farmer and framer tie for the highest Scrabble score from farmer at 11 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in farmer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and farmer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with farmer. For points, the strongest plays are farmer and framer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in farmer. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: frame, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in farmer produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fame, farm, fear, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are fame and farm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling farmer turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ear, era, and far. For points, the strongest plays are fam and fem — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in farmer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest plays 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 farmer and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
farmer 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 three senses for farmer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
farmer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing farmer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are farmer and framer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from farmer 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 farmer produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.