Hidden inside filters sit filters, lifters, stifler and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filters, lifters, stifler and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from filters at 10 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in filters: three come from rearranging its letters, and filters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are filters, lifters, 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 filters turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirts and itself. For points, the strongest plays are filers, filets, filter, fliers, fliest, flirts, flites, frites, itself, lifers, lifter, 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with files, fires, first, flies, flirt, fries, and lefts. For points, the strongest plays are feist, felts, filer, files, filet, fires, first, flier, flies, flirs, flirt, flite, flits, frets, fries, 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 filters produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with felt, file, fire, fist, fits, left, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are efts, felt, fest, fets, file, 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 filters turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fit, its, let, lie, lit, and set. 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 filters. 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.
Swap a single tile in filters 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.
filters 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 filters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
filters is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing filters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are filters, lifters, stifler, and trifles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from filters 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 filters produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.