Hidden inside fertile sit feltier and fertile, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feltier and fertile tie for the highest Scrabble score from fertile at 10 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in fertile: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fertile 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 feltier and fertile, 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 fertile turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relief. For points, the strongest plays are ferlie, filter, lefter, leftie, liefer, lifter, refelt, refile, reflet, relief, telfer, and trifle — 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fertile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirt. For points, the strongest plays are filer, filet, firee, fleer, fleet, flier, flirt, flite, lifer, refel, refit, and rifle — 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 fertile produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, feet, felt, file, fire, flee, and free. For points, the strongest plays are feel, feet, felt, fere, fete, file, fire, flee, flir, flit, free, fret, frit, left, lief, life, lift, reef, reft, reif, rife, rift, and tref — 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 fertile turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, fit, let, lie, lit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eft, elf, fee, fer, fet, fie, fil, fir, fit, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fertile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and it. 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 fertile 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.
fertile 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 four senses for fertile. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
fertile is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fertile unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feltier and fertile, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fertile 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 fertile produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.