ferryboats needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 589 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferryboats is the highest-scoring word from ferryboats, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 589 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ferryboats — and it is ferryboats itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferryboats produces exactly one nine-letter word: ferryboat. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferryboats. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is forebays, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ferryboats produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with betrays. For points, the strongest play is forebay — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferryboats turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, arrest and barest. For points, the strongest plays are forbye and foreby — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 153 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferryboats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, after and barer. For points, the strongest play is forby — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ferryboats produces 183 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bare and bars. For points, the strongest plays are fays, foys, and fray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferryboats turns up 109 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, foy, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferryboats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and ay. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
ferryboats 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 ferryboats carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ferryboats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
ferryboats is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferryboats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ferryboats, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ferryboats 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 ferryboats produce 589 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 153 five-letter words, 183 four-letter words, 109 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.