Hidden inside femurs sit femurs and fumers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
femurs and fumers tie for the highest Scrabble score from femurs at 11 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in femurs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and femurs 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 femurs and fumers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in femurs. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are femur, fumer, and fumes, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in femurs produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with furs, rums, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are fems and fume — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling femurs turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fur, rum, sue, and use. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 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 femurs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays 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 femurs 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.
femurs 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.
femurs is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing femurs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are femurs and fumers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from femurs 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 femurs produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.