Hidden inside fasteners sit fasteners and refastens, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fasteners and refastens tie for the highest Scrabble score from fasteners at 12 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in fasteners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fasteners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fasteners and refastens, 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 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fasteners. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fastener, feasters, fenestra, and refasten, 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 fasteners produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, easters, nearest, and resents. For points, the strongest plays are afreets, enserfs, farness, fastens, fatness, feaster, festers, and strafes — 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 fasteners turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, enters, erases, faster, freest, neater, and resent. For points, the strongest plays are afreet, afters, enserf, fasten, faster, feases, feasts, feater, festas, fester, freest, safest, snarfs, strafe, and terefa — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fasteners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, earns, eases, eaten, enter, erase, and fates. For points, the strongest plays are after, fanes, fares, farts, fasts, fates, fears, fease, feast, feats, feres, ferns, fesse, festa, fests, fetas, fetes, frass, frats, frees, frena, frets, rafts, reefs, safer, safes, serfs, snarf, and trefa — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fasteners produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are arfs, efts, fane, fans, fare, fart, fast, fate, fats, fear, feat, fees, feet, fens, fere, fern, fess, fest, feta, fete, fets, frae, frat, free, fret, raft, reef, refs, reft, safe, serf, and tref — 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 fasteners turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, efs, eft, fan, far, fas, fat, fee, fen, fer, fes, fet, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fasteners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. 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 fasteners 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.
fasteners 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 two senses for fasteners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
fasteners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fasteners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fasteners and refastens, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fasteners 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 fasteners produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.