Hidden inside feeler sit feeler and refeel, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feeler and refeel tie for the highest Scrabble score from feeler at 9 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in feeler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and feeler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feeler and refeel, 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeler. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fleer and refel, 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 feeler produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, flee, and free. For points, the strongest plays are feel, fere, flee, free, and reef — 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 feeler turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf and fee. For points, the strongest plays are elf, fee, fer, and ref — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeler. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in feeler 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.
feeler 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 four senses for feeler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
feeler is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feeler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feeler and refeel, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from feeler 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 feeler produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.