Hidden inside fondued sit fondued and founded, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fondued and founded tie for the highest Scrabble score from fondued at 12 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in fondued: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fondued itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with founded. For points, the strongest plays are fondued and founded — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fondued 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 defund, fonded, and funded, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fondued produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, dude and fund. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including fund, fend and feod.
Unscrambling fondued turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end and fed. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fondued. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, of, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in fondued plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fondued 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.
fondued is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
fondued is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fondued unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fondued and founded, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fondued 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 fondued produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.