Hidden inside footens sit eftsoon and festoon, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
FOOTENS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EFTSOON and FESTOON.
eftsoon and festoon tie for the highest Scrabble score from footens at 10 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in footens produces 2 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 eftsoon and festoon, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling footens produces exactly one six-letter word: soften. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, often, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are fonts, foots, and often — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in footens produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with foot, nest and nets. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including foot, soft and efts.
Unscrambling footens turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, not and one. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including efs, eft and fen.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, of and on. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in footens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in footens 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eftsoon and festoon, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from footens 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 footens produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.