Hidden inside feller sit feller and refell, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feller and refell tie for the highest Scrabble score from feller at 9 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in feller: one comes from rearranging its letters, and feller 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 feller and refell, 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 feller. 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 feller produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, fell, flee, and free. For points, the strongest plays are feel, fell, 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 feller turns up 9 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 feller. 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 feller 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.
feller 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 2-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 feller. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
feller is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feller unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feller and refell, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from feller 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 feller produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.