Hidden inside faultiest sit faultiest and fistulate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 329 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
faultiest and fistulate tie for the highest Scrabble score from faultiest at 12 points. The top 10 of 329 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in faultiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and faultiest 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 faultiest and fistulate, 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faultiest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fistulae, flatties, flautist, flutiest, and tasteful, 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 faultiest produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fatties. For points, the strongest plays are fatties, fetials, fistula, flattie, flutist, leftist, sealift, sulfate, and sulfite — 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 faultiest turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faults, flutes, itself, latest, lattes, statue, and titles. For points, the strongest plays are falsie, faults, festal, fetial, fiesta, filets, flatus, fliest, flites, flutes, fusile, futile, futsal, itself, and stifle — 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 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faultiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, fails, false, fates, fault, fetus, and files. For points, the strongest plays are alefs, alifs, fails, false, fates, fault, feast, feats, feist, felts, festa, fetal, fetas, fetus, fiats, files, filet, flats, fleas, flies, flite, flits, flues, flute, fuels, fusel, fusil, leafs, lefts, lifts, sulfa, tufas, and tufts — 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 faultiest produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, fail, fast, fate, felt, and file. For points, the strongest plays are alef, alif, efts, fail, fast, fate, fats, feal, feat, felt, fest, feta, fets, feus, fiat, fila, file, fils, fist, fits, flat, flea, flit, flue, flus, fuel, fuse, leaf, left, lief, life, lift, safe, seif, self, sift, tufa, and tuft — 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 faultiest turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, elf, fat, fit, flu, and its. For points, the strongest plays are aft, efs, eft, elf, fas, fat, fes, fet, feu, fie, fil, fit, flu, and ifs — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faultiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, if, is, it, and us. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in faultiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in faultiest 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.
faultiest 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.
faultiest is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing faultiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are faultiest and fistulate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faultiest 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 faultiest produce 329 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.