Hidden inside feeders sit feeders and refeeds, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feeders and refeeds tie for the highest Scrabble score from feeders at 11 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in feeders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and feeders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feeders and refeeds, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling feeders turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defers, feeder, reefed, and refeed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers and feeds. For points, the strongest plays are defer, feeds, freed, and refed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in feeders produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed and fees. For points, the strongest plays are feds and feed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling feeders turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fed, fee, red, and see. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeders. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef and fe, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in feeders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in feeders 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.
feeders 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in feeders carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for feeders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
feeders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feeders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feeders and refeeds, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from feeders 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 feeders produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.