footling needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
footling is the highest-scoring word from footling, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in footling — and it is footling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in footling produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fooling. For points, the strongest plays are fooling, footing, and lofting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fling, flong, gonif, and gonof, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in footling produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fool, foot and gift. For points, the strongest plays are flog, gift, golf, and goof — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling footling turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, fog and goo. For points, the strongest plays are fig, fog, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if and in. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in footling and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
footling 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 3-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 footling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
footling is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing footling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is footling, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from footling 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 footling produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.