Hidden inside feast sit fates, feast, feats and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fates, feast, feats and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from feast at 8 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in feast: four come from rearranging its letters, and feast itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fates. For points, the strongest plays are fates, feast, feats, festa, and fetas — 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 feast produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, fast, fate, safe, seat, and teas. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fast, fate, fats, feat, fest, feta, fets, and safe — 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 feast turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, fat, sat, sea, set, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are aft, efs, eft, fas, fat, fes, and fet — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as 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 feast and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
feast 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 feast carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for feast. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
feast is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fates, feast, feats, festa, and fetas, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from feast 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 feast produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.