Hidden inside faultier sit faultier and filature, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
faultier and filature tie for the highest Scrabble score from faultier at 11 points. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in faultier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and faultier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are faultier and filature, 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 faultier produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with failure. For points, the strongest plays are failure, flutier, refutal, and tearful — 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 faultier turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ritual. For points, the strongest plays are artful, earful, falter, ferial, ferula, fetial, filter, fluter, futile, ireful, lifter, and trifle — 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faultier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, alert, alter, fault, flirt, flute, and fruit. For points, the strongest plays are afire, afrit, after, farle, fault, feral, feria, fetal, feuar, filar, filer, filet, flair, flare, flier, flirt, flite, flute, frail, fruit, iftar, lifer, refit, rifle, 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 faultier produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fail, fair, fate, fear, felt, file, and fire. For points, the strongest plays are alef, alif, fail, fair, fare, farl, fart, fate, feal, fear, feat, felt, feta, fiar, fiat, fila, file, fire, flat, flea, flir, flit, flue, frae, frat, fret, frit, fuel, furl, leaf, left, lief, life, lift, raft, reft, reif, rife, rift, tref, tufa, and turf — 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 faultier turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and elf. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, eft, elf, far, fat, fer, fet, feu, fie, fil, fir, fit, flu, fur, ref, and rif — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faultier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, if, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — 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 faultier and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
faultier 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.
faultier is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing faultier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are faultier and filature, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faultier 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 faultier produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.