filigree needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filigree is the highest-scoring word from filigree, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in filigree — and it is filigree itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling filigree turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relief. For points, the strongest plays are feirie, ferlie, liefer, refile, and relief — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filigree. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: grief, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in filigree produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, file, fire, flee, free, girl, and life. For points, the strongest play is frig — 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 filigree turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, gee, leg, lie, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are fig 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filigree. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 filigree 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.
filigree 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 two senses for filigree. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
filigree is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing filigree unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is filigree, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from filigree 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 filigree produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.