Hidden inside figured sit figured and fudgier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
figured and fudgier tie for the highest Scrabble score from figured at 12 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in figured: one comes from rearranging its letters, and figured itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with figured. For points, the strongest plays are figured and fudgier — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling figured turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with figure and fridge. For points, the strongest play is fridge — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in figured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fired, fried, fudge, grief, and guide. For points, the strongest plays are fidge and fudge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in figured produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drug, fire, ride, rude, and urge. For points, the strongest plays are defi, feud, frig, and frug — 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 figured turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, due, dug, fed, fur, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, fid, fig, fud, fug, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in figured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and if. 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 figured 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.
figured 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 2-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 figured. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
figured is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing figured unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are figured and fudgier, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from figured 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 figured produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.