Hidden inside ferlaf sit farfel and raffle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
FERLAF isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to FARFEL and RAFFLE.
farfel and raffle tie for the highest Scrabble score from ferlaf at 12 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling ferlaf turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farfel and raffle, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferlaf. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farle, feral, and flare, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ferlaf produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fear, leaf, and real. For points, the strongest play is raff — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferlaf turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and elf. For points, the strongest plays are aff and eff — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferlaf. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef, fa, and fe, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ferlaf plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ferlaf 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are farfel and raffle, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ferlaf 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 ferlaf produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.