filagrees needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 422 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filagrees is the highest-scoring word from filagrees, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 422 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in filagrees — and it is filagrees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filagrees. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is filagree, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in filagrees produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fragile and reliefs. For points, the strongest plays are fragile, reflags, and serfage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling filagrees turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easier and falser. For points, the strongest plays are friges, griefs, and reflag — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filagrees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, aisle and erase. For points, the strongest plays are flags, frags, frigs, and grief — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in filagrees produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and ears. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including flag, fags and figs.
Unscrambling filagrees turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filagrees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in filagrees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in filagrees 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.
filagrees 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 filagrees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
filagrees is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing filagrees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is filagrees, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from filagrees 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 filagrees produce 422 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.