fatties needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fatties is the highest-scoring word from fatties, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in fatties — and it is fatties itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fatties produces exactly one six-letter word: fiesta. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fatties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fates, state, and taste. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including fates, feast and feats.
Rearranging the letters in fatties produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and fast. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including fast, fate and fist.
Unscrambling fatties turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and fat. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including fat, fit and aft.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fatties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in fatties plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fatties and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
fatties 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in fatties carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for fatties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
fatties is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fatties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fatties, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fatties 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 fatties produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.