featured needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 160 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
featured is the highest-scoring word from featured, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 160 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in featured — and it is featured itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in featured produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feature. For points, the strongest plays are draftee and refuted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling featured turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, defeat, and feared. For points, the strongest plays are dafter, deafer, defeat, defter, farted, feared, rafted, and turfed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in featured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fraud, and trade. For points, the strongest plays are defat, defer, draft, fader, fared, fated, feted, feued, fraud, freed, and refed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in featured produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, deaf, dear, deer, fate, and fear. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, deft, fade, fard, feed, and feud — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling featured turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, due, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in featured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — 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 featured 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.
featured 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 two senses for featured. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
featured is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing featured unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is featured, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from featured 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 featured produce 160 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.