Hidden inside felid sit felid, field, filed and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
felid, field, filed and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from felid at 9 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in felid: three come from rearranging its letters, and felid itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with field and filed. For points, the strongest plays are felid, field, filed, and flied — 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 felid produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, file, fled, lied, and life. For points, the strongest plays are defi, delf, and fled — 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 felid turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, elf, fed, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in felid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — 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 felid 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.
felid 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 one sense for felid. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
felid is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing felid unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are felid, field, filed, and flied, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from felid 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 felid produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.