Hidden inside fondles sit enfolds and fondles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enfolds and fondles tie for the highest Scrabble score from fondles at 11 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in fondles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fondles 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 enfolds and fondles, 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 fondles turns up 4 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fondles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with folds and lends. For points, the strongest plays are delfs, fends, feods, folds, and fonds — 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 fondles produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done, ends, fled, fold, lend, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are delf, feds, fend, feod, fled, fold, and fond — 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 fondles turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, end, fed, led, old, one, and son. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fondles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, of, on, 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 fondles 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.
fondles 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 fondles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
fondles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fondles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enfolds and fondles, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fondles 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 fondles produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.