ferriages needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferriages is the highest-scoring word from ferriages, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ferriages — and it is ferriages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferriages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greasier. For points, the strongest play is ferriage — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ferriages produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is serfage, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferriages turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easier and fairer. For points, the strongest plays are friges and griefs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferriages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, erase and fears. For points, the strongest plays are frags, frigs, and grief — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ferriages produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and ears. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including fags, figs and frag.
Unscrambling ferriages turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferriages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ferriages and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ferriages 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.
ferriages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferriages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ferriages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ferriages 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 ferriages produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.