Hidden inside fillister sit fillister and frilliest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fillister and frilliest tie for the highest Scrabble score from fillister at 12 points. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in fillister: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fillister itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fillister and frilliest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fillister. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are filister and frillies, 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 fillister produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sillier. For points, the strongest plays are fillers, fillets, fillies, filters, firelit, lifters, refills, stifler, and trifles — 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 fillister turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirts and itself. For points, the strongest plays are filers, filets, filler, filles, fillet, filter, fliers, fliest, flirts, flites, frills, frites, itself, lifers, lifter, refill, refits, resift, rifest, rifles, sifter, stifle, strife, 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 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fillister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with files, fills, fires, first, flies, flirt, and fries. For points, the strongest plays are feist, fells, felts, filer, files, filet, fille, fills, fires, first, flier, flies, flirs, flirt, flite, flits, frets, fries, frill, frise, frits, lefts, lifer, lifts, refit, reifs, rifle, rifts, and serif — 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 fillister produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fell, felt, file, fill, fire, fist, and fits. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fell, felt, fest, fets, file, fill, fils, fire, firs, fist, fits, flir, flit, fret, frit, left, lief, life, lift, refs, reft, reif, rife, rifs, rift, seif, self, serf, sift, 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 fillister turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fit, ill, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, elf, fer, fes, fet, fie, fil, fir, fit, ifs, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fillister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in fillister plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fillister 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.
fillister is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
fillister is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fillister unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fillister and frilliest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fillister 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 fillister produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.