Hidden inside footnotes sit footnotes and footstone, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
footnotes and footstone tie for the highest Scrabble score from footnotes at 12 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in footnotes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and footnotes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are footnotes and footstone, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling footnotes produces exactly one eight-letter word: footnote. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in footnotes produces 4 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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling footnotes turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oftest and soften, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footnotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, often, stone, tents, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are fonts, foots, often, and tofts — 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 footnotes produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with foot, nest, nets, nose, note, ones, and onto. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fens, fest, fets, foes, fons, font, foos, foot, soft, and toft — 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 footnotes turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, not, one, set, son, ten, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fen, fes, fet, foe, fon, foo, oft, and oof — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footnotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, of, on, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in footnotes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in footnotes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
footnotes 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for footnotes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
footnotes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing footnotes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are footnotes and footstone, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from footnotes 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 footnotes produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.