Hidden inside folden sit enfold and fondle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DEFLON, DONEFL or FODLEN and you get the same 6 letters as FOLDEN: so the words from FOLDEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
FOLDEN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ENFOLD and FONDLE.
enfold and fondle tie for the highest Scrabble score from folden at 10 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling folden turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enfold and fondle, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in folden. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is felon, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in folden produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, fled, fold, and lend. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including fled, fold and delf.
Unscrambling folden turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, end and fed. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in folden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, of, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in folden plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in folden 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enfold and fondle, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from folden 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 folden produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.