Hidden inside ferniest sit ferniest and infester, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferniest and infester tie for the highest Scrabble score from ferniest at 11 points. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ferniest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ferniest 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 ferniest and infester, 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 ferniest produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries. For points, the strongest plays are refines and snifter — 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 ferniest turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, finest, freest, resent, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are enserf, feints, ferine, fester, finest, firees, freest, frisee, frites, infers, infest, refine, refits, resift, rifest, sifter, and strife — 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 70 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferniest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, finer, fires, first, fries, rents, and risen. For points, the strongest plays are feint, feist, feres, ferns, fetes, finer, fines, firee, fires, firns, first, frees, frets, fries, frise, frits, infer, neifs, reefs, refit, reifs, rifts, and serif — 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 ferniest produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, feet, fine, fire, fist, fits, and free. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fees, feet, fens, fere, fern, fest, fete, fets, fine, fins, fire, firn, firs, fist, fits, free, fret, frit, neif, reef, refs, reft, reif, rife, rifs, rift, seif, serf, sift, and tref — 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 ferniest turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, fit, its, net, see, set, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fee, fen, fer, fes, fet, fie, fin, fir, fit, ifs, ref, and rif — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferniest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — 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 ferniest 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.
ferniest 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ferniest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferniest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ferniest and infester, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ferniest 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 ferniest produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 70 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.