Hidden inside ferries sit ferries, refires, and refries, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferries, refires, and refries tie for the highest Scrabble score from ferries at 10 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ferries: two come from rearranging its letters, and ferries 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 ferries, refires, and refries, 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 ferries turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refers. For points, the strongest plays are firees, firers, freers, freres, friers, frisee, refers, and refire — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fires, freer, fries, and refer. For points, the strongest plays are feres, firee, firer, fires, freer, frees, frere, frier, fries, frise, reefs, refer, reifs, rifer, 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 ferries produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, fire, free, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are fees, fere, fire, firs, free, reef, refs, reif, rife, rifs, seif, and serf — 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 ferries turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are efs, fee, fer, fes, fie, fir, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and is. 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 ferries 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.
ferries 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 ferries carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for ferries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ferries is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ferries, refires, and refries, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ferries 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 ferries produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.