Hidden inside ferrying sit ferrying and refrying, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferrying and refrying tie for the highest Scrabble score from ferrying at 15 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ferrying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ferrying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ferrying and refrying, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling ferrying turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger and frying. For points, the strongest plays are fringy and frying — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferrying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer and grief. For points, the strongest plays are ferny, ferry, fiery, firry, fryer, refry, and reify — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ferrying produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire, grey, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are frig, grey, gyre, and gyri — 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 ferrying turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fry and rig. For points, the strongest plays are fey and fry — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferrying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in ferrying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ferrying and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ferrying 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for ferrying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
ferrying is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferrying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ferrying and refrying, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ferrying 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 ferrying produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.