Hidden inside floats sit floats and flotas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
floats and flotas tie for the highest Scrabble score from floats at 9 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in floats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and floats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with floats. For points, the strongest plays are floats and flotas — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in floats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fatso and float. For points, the strongest plays are aloft, fatso, flats, float, flota, foals, loafs, lofts, and softa — 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 floats produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, fast, flat, last, loaf, lost, and lots. For points, the strongest plays are fast, fats, flat, foal, loaf, loft, oafs, sofa, and soft — 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 floats turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fat, lot, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aft, fas, fat, oaf, and oft — 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 floats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, of, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are fa and of — 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 floats 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.
floats 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.
floats is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing floats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are floats and flotas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from floats 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 floats produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.