Hidden inside fondu sit fondu and found, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fondu and found tie for the highest Scrabble score from fondu at 9 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in fondu: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fondu itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with found. For points, the strongest plays are fondu and found — 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 fondu produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fund and undo. For points, the strongest plays are fond and fund — 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 fondu turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fun. For points, the strongest play is fud — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fondu. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, of, and on. For points, the strongest play is of — 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 fondu and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
fondu 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 two senses for fondu. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
fondu is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fondu unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fondu and found, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fondu 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 fondu produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.