Hidden inside fontu sit fount and futon, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
FONTU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to FOUNT and FUTON.
fount and futon tie for the highest Scrabble score from fontu at 8 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fontu. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fount and futon, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fontu produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are font and tofu, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in fontu 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fount and futon, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fontu 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 fontu produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.