Hidden inside flogs sit flogs and golfs, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flogs and golfs tie for the highest Scrabble score from flogs at 9 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in flogs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and flogs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with golfs. For points, the strongest plays are flogs and golfs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in flogs produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fogs, golf, and logs. For points, the strongest plays are flog, fogs, and golf — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling flogs turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fog and log. For points, the strongest play is fog — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in flogs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, of, and so. For points, the strongest play is of — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in flogs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in flogs and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
flogs 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for flogs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
flogs is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing flogs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flogs and golfs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from flogs 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 flogs produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.