ford needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 9 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DROF or DRFO and you get the same 4 letters as FORD: so the words from FORD listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ford is the highest-scoring word from ford, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 9 of 9 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in ford — and it is ford itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ford and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
ford 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 ford carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record nine senses for ford. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ford is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ford unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ford, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ford 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 ford produce 9 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 4 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.