fontanelle needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fontanelle is the highest-scoring word from fontanelle, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in fontanelle — and it is fontanelle itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fontanelle produces exactly one nine-letter word: flannelet. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fontanelle produces exactly one eight-letter word: fontanel. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fontanelle produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fellate, flannel, floatel, and leaflet, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fontanelle turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fallen. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including fallen, felloe and fennel.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fontanelle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, eaten and fella. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including fella, float and often.
Rearranging the letters in fontanelle produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fall, fate and feel. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including fall, fate and feel.
Unscrambling fontanelle turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ant and ate. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including elf, fan and fat.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fontanelle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and no. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in fontanelle plus one additional letter.
fontanelle 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 4-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 fontanelle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
fontanelle is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fontanelle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fontanelle, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fontanelle 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 fontanelle produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.