folktales needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 309 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
folktales is the highest-scoring word from folktales, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 309 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in folktales — and it is folktales itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in folktales. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is folktale, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in folktales produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is flasket, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling folktales turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fellas and floats. For points, the strongest plays are fakest, flakes, and koftas — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in folktales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fakes, falls, false, fates, fatso, fella, and float. For points, the strongest plays are fakes, flake, flaks, flask, folks, and kofta — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in folktales produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, east, eats, fake, fall, fast, and fate. For points, the strongest plays are fake, flak, folk, kafs, and kefs — 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 folktales turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ask, ate, eat, elf, fat, and let. For points, the strongest plays are kaf and kef — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in folktales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, of, ok, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 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 folktales and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
folktales 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 one sense for folktales. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
folktales is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing folktales unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is folktales, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from folktales 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 folktales produce 309 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.