Hidden inside feather sit feather and terefah, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feather and terefah tie for the highest Scrabble score from feather at 13 points. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in feather: one comes from rearranging its letters, and feather itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feather. For points, the strongest plays are feather and terefah — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling feather turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with father. For points, the strongest plays are father, hafter, hefter, and trefah — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feather. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, earth, heart, there, and three. For points, the strongest plays are after, earth, ether, hater, heart, rathe, there, three, 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 feather produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fate, fear, feet, free, hate, hear, and heat. For points, the strongest plays are haft and heft — 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 feather turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and far. For points, the strongest plays are fah and feh — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feather. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ef, eh, fa, fe, ha, and he — 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 feather 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.
feather 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 seven senses for feather. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
feather is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feather unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feather and terefah, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from feather 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 feather produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.