Hidden inside filter sit filter, lifter, and trifle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filter, lifter, and trifle tie for the highest Scrabble score from filter at 9 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in filter: two come from rearranging its letters, and filter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are filter, lifter, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirt. For points, the strongest plays are filer, filet, flier, flirt, flite, lifer, 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 filter produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with felt, file, fire, left, life, lift, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are felt, file, fire, flir, flit, fret, frit, left, lief, life, lift, 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 filter turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fit, let, lie, lit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eft, elf, 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 filter. 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 filter and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
filter 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 five senses for filter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
filter is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing filter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are filter, lifter, and trifle, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from filter 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 filter produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.