follies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
follies is the highest-scoring word from follies, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in follies — and it is follies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling follies 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 filles, fillos, filose, folles, and follis, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in follies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with files, fills, and flies. For points, the strongest plays are fells, files, fille, fillo, fills, filos, flies, floes, and foils — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in follies produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fell, file, fill, lies, life, lose, and oils. For points, the strongest plays are fell, file, fill, filo, fils, floe, foes, foil, lief, life, seif, and self — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling follies turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, ill, lie, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are efs, elf, fes, fie, fil, foe, and ifs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in follies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, of, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in follies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in follies 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.
follies 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 follies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
follies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing follies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is follies, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from follies 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 follies produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.