Hidden inside fere sit fere, free, and reef, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fere, free, and reef tie for the highest Scrabble score from fere at 7 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in fere: two come from rearranging its letters, and fere itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with free. For points, the strongest plays are fere, free, and reef — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fere. 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.
Swap a single tile in fere and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
fere 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in fere carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
fere is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fere unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fere, free, and reef, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fere 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 fere produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.