fondues needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fondues is the highest-scoring word from fondues, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in fondues — and it is fondues itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fondues turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with founds and undoes. For points, the strongest plays are fondue, fondus, and founds — 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 fondues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with found, funds, and sound. For points, the strongest plays are fends, feods, feuds, fonds, fondu, found, funds, fused, and unfed — 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 fondues produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done, ends, fund, nose, nude, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are feds, fend, feod, feud, fond, fuds, 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 fondues turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, fed, fun, one, son, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fud — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fondues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, of, on, so, and us. 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 fondues 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.
fondues 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 fondues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
fondues is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fondues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fondues, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fondues 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 fondues produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.