Hidden inside folders sit folders and refolds, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
folders and refolds tie for the highest Scrabble score from folders at 11 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in folders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and folders 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 folders and refolds, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling folders turns up 6 six-letter words. 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.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in folders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with folds, lords, loser, older, and roles. For points, the strongest plays are delfs, feods, folds, and fords — 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 folders produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, fled, fold, lord, lose, rode, and rods. For points, the strongest plays are delf, feds, 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 folders turns up 37 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in folders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, of, or, and so. 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 folders 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.
folders 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 folders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
folders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing folders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are folders and refolds, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from folders 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 folders produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.