Hidden inside forefends sit forefends, offenders, and reoffends, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forefends, offenders, and reoffends tie for the highest Scrabble score from forefends at 16 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in forefends: two come from rearranging its letters, and forefends 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 forefends, offenders, and reoffends, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forefends. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are forefend, forfends, offender, and reoffend, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in forefends produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with offends, offense, and offered. For points, the strongest plays are doffers, forfend, offends, offered, and sendoff — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling forefends turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with offend and offers. For points, the strongest plays are deffer, doffer, offend, and reffed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forefends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, feeds, needs, nerds, and offer. For points, the strongest plays are doffs, effed, and offed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in forefends produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, does, done, ends, feed, fees, and free. For points, the strongest play is doff — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling forefends turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, fed, fee, for, nor, off, and one. For points, the strongest plays are eff and off — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forefends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, of, on, or, and so. 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 forefends 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.
forefends 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 forefends. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
forefends is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing forefends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are forefends, offenders, and reoffends, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from forefends 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 forefends produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.