Hidden inside faults sit faults, flatus, and futsal, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
faults, flatus, and futsal tie for the highest Scrabble score from faults at 9 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in faults: two come from rearranging its letters, and faults itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faults. For points, the strongest plays are faults, flatus, and futsal — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faults. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fault. For points, the strongest plays are fault, flats, sulfa, and tufas — 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 faults produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fast, flat, flus, last, and salt. For points, the strongest plays are fast, fats, flat, flus, and tufa — 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 faults turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fat, flu, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aft, fas, fat, and flu — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in faults. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest play is fa — 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 faults and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
faults 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.
Dictionaries record eight senses for faults. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
faults is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing faults unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are faults, flatus, and futsal, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faults 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 faults produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.