fellowman needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fellowman is the highest-scoring word from fellowman, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in fellowman — and it is fellowman itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fellowman turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fallen and fellow. For points, the strongest plays are fallow and fellow — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fellowman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, alone and fella. For points, the strongest play is flown — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fellowman produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, fall and fame. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including flaw, flew and flow.
Unscrambling fellowman turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, elf and fan. For points, the strongest play is few — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fellowman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and aw. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ew and of.
Swap a single tile in fellowman and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
fellowman 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
fellowman is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fellowman unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fellowman, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fellowman 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 fellowman produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.