Hidden inside ferried sit ferried, refired, and refried, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferried, refired, and refried tie for the highest Scrabble score from ferried at 11 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ferried: two come from rearranging its letters, and ferried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ferried, refired, and refried, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ferried 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 word is defier, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier, fired, freer, fried, and refer. For points, the strongest plays are defer, fired, freed, fried, and refed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ferried produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed, fire, free, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are defi and feed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ferried turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, fed, fee, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and if. 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 ferried and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ferried 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 ferried carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
ferried is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ferried, refired, and refried, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ferried 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 ferried produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.