ferments needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferments is the highest-scoring word from ferments, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ferments — and it is ferments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferments produces exactly one seven-letter word: ferment. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferments turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, freest, meters, resent, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are enserf, fester, and freest — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, meets, meter, rents, semen, steer, and teens. For points, the strongest play is femes — 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 ferments produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, feet, free, meet, nest, nets, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are feme and fems — 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 ferments turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, men, met, net, see, set, and ten. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in ferments plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ferments 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.
ferments 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 seven senses for ferments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ferments is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ferments, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ferments 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 ferments produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 15 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.