ferryboat needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferryboat is the highest-scoring word from ferryboat, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ferryboat — and it is ferryboat itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ferryboat produces 7 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 forebay, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferryboat turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with betray. For points, the strongest plays are forbye and foreby — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferryboat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, after, barer, and forty. For points, the strongest play is forby — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ferryboat produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear, beat, boat, bore, brat, and fate. For points, the strongest play is fray — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferryboat turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, aye, bar, bat, and bay. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, foy, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferryboat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, be, by, of, or, and oy. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ferryboat plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ferryboat 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.
ferryboat 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 ferryboat carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ferryboat. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
ferryboat is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferryboat unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ferryboat, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ferryboat 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 ferryboat produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.