Hidden inside filterers sit filterers and refilters, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 334 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filterers and refilters tie for the highest Scrabble score from filterers at 12 points. The top 10 of 334 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in filterers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and filterers 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 filterers and refilters, 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filterers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ferrites, filterer, flirters, refilter, and triflers, 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 filterers produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reliefs and retires. For points, the strongest plays are felsite, feltier, ferlies, ferrels, ferrets, ferries, ferrite, fertile, filters, flirter, lefties, liefest, lifters, refiles, refires, reflets, reflies, refries, reliefs, riflers, stifler, telfers, trifler, 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 filterers turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirts, freest, itself, refers, relief, relies, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are ferlie, ferrel, ferret, fester, filers, filets, filter, firees, firers, fleers, fleets, fliers, fliest, flirts, flites, freers, freest, freres, friers, frisee, frites, itself, lefter, leftie, liefer, lifers, lifter, refels, refelt, refers, refile, refire, refits, reflet, relief, resift, rifest, rifler, rifles, selfie, sifter, stifle, strife, telfer, 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 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels, files, fires, first, flees, flies, and flirt. For points, the strongest plays are feels, feist, felts, feres, fetes, filer, files, filet, firee, firer, fires, first, fleer, flees, fleet, flier, flies, flirs, flirt, flite, flits, freer, frees, frere, frets, frier, fries, frise, frits, lefts, lifer, lifts, reefs, refel, refer, refit, reifs, rifer, 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 filterers produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, feel, fees, feet, felt, file, and fire. For points, the strongest plays are efts, feel, fees, feet, felt, fere, fest, fete, fets, file, fils, fire, firs, fist, fits, flee, flir, flit, free, fret, frit, left, lief, life, lift, reef, 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 filterers turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, fit, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, elf, fee, 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 filterers. 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 filterers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in filterers 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.
filterers 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.
filterers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing filterers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are filterers and refilters, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from filterers 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 filterers produce 334 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.