Hidden inside footers sit foetors and footers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
foetors and footers tie for the highest Scrabble score from footers at 10 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in footers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and footers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are foetors and footers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling footers turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forest and softer. For points, the strongest plays are fetors, foetor, footer, forest, fortes, foster, and softer — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forts, roofs, roots, and store. For points, the strongest plays are fetor, foots, fores, forte, forts, frets, froes, frost, ofter, and roofs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in footers produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with foot, fort, rest, roof, root, rose, and soft. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fest, fets, foes, foos, foot, fore, fort, fret, froe, refs, reft, roof, serf, soft, and tref — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling footers turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, set, toe, and too. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fer, fes, fet, foe, foo, for, fro, oft, oof, and ref — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with of, or, so, and to. 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 footers 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.
footers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in footers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for footers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
footers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing footers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foetors and footers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from footers 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 footers produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.