footstool needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
footstool is the highest-scoring word from footstool, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in footstool — and it is footstool itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling footstool produces exactly one six-letter word: lottos. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footstool. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fools, stool, and tools. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including fools, foots and lofts.
Rearranging the letters in footstool produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fool, foot and lost. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including fool, foot and soft.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in footstool plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in footstool 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.
footstool 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 one sense for footstool. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
footstool is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing footstool unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is footstool, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from footstool 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 footstool produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 14 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.