Hidden inside faulter sit refutal and tearful, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble FRULATE, FLURATE or FEARLUT and you get the same 7 letters as FAULTER: so the words from FAULTER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
FAULTER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to REFUTAL and TEARFUL.
refutal and tearful tie for the highest Scrabble score from faulter at 10 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in faulter produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are refutal and tearful, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling faulter turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are artful, earful, falter, ferula, and fluter, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faulter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, alert, alter, fault, flute, and later. For points, the strongest plays are after, farle, fault, feral, fetal, feuar, flare, flute, and trefa — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in faulter produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fate, fear, felt, flat, late, leaf, and left. For points, the strongest plays are alef, fare, farl, fart, fate, feal, fear, feat, felt, feta, flat, flea, flue, frae, frat, fret, fuel, furl, leaf, left, raft, reft, tref, tufa, and turf — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling faulter turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, elf, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, eft, elf, far, fat, fer, fet, feu, flu, fur, and ref — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faulter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in faulter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in faulter and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are refutal and tearful, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faulter 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 faulter produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.