Hidden inside folder sit folder, refold, and rolfed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
folder, refold, and rolfed tie for the highest Scrabble score from folder at 10 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in folder: two come from rearranging its letters, and folder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are folder, refold, and rolfed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling folder produces exactly one five-letter word: older. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in folder produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fled, fold, lord, rode, and role. For points, the strongest plays are delf, feod, fled, fold, and ford — 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 folder turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fed, for, led, old, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in folder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, of, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, 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 folder 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.
folder 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 two senses for folder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
folder is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing folder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are folder, refold, and rolfed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from folder 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 folder produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 20 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.