favorite needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
favorite is the highest-scoring word from favorite, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in favorite — and it is favorite itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in favorite 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 overfat and overfit, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in favorite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, favor, and voter. For points, the strongest plays are faver, favor, fiver, and fovea — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in favorite produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fair, fate, fear, fire, five, fort, and over. For points, the strongest plays are fave and five — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling favorite turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest play is fav — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in favorite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, if, it, of, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in favorite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in favorite 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.
favorite 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 five senses for favorite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
favorite is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing favorite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is favorite, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from favorite 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 favorite produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.