fastidious needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fastidious is the highest-scoring word from fastidious, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in fastidious — and it is fastidious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fastidious produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with studios. For points, the strongest plays are audists, outsaid, and studios — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fastidious turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fatsos, idiots, and studio. For points, the strongest plays are fatsos, foists, and softas — 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 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fastidious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, dusts, fatso, fists, idiot, sodas, and sofas. For points, the strongest plays are fados and fidos — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fastidious produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, auto, dots, dust, fast, fist, and fits. For points, the strongest plays are daft, difs, fado, fads, fido, fids, and fuds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fastidious turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ass, dot, fat, fit, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dif, fad, fid, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fastidious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, id, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are fa, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
fastidious 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 fastidious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
fastidious is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fastidious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fastidious, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fastidious 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 fastidious produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.