Hidden inside felonies sit felonies and olefines, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
felonies and olefines tie for the highest Scrabble score from felonies at 11 points. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in felonies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and felonies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are felonies and olefines, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in felonies produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are felines, olefine, olefins, and oneself, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling felonies turns up 18 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elfins, feline, felons, filose, flense, olefin, and selfie, 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in felonies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels, files, flees, flies, lines, lions, and noise. For points, the strongest plays are elfin, feels, felon, files, filos, fines, finos, flees, flies, floes, foils, foins, infos, and neifs — 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 felonies produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, feel, fees, file, fine, flee, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are feel, fees, fens, file, filo, fils, fine, fino, fins, flee, floe, foes, foil, foin, fons, info, lief, life, neif, seif, and self — 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 felonies turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, lie, oil, one, see, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are efs, elf, fee, fen, fes, fie, fil, fin, foe, fon, and ifs — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in felonies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, is, no, of, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in felonies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in felonies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
felonies 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 one sense for felonies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
felonies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing felonies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are felonies and olefines, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from felonies 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 felonies produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.