foretells 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, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
foretells is the highest-scoring word from foretells, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in foretells — and it is foretells itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foretells. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is foretell, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in foretells produces 13 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 fellers, fellest, felloes, florets, flotels, lofters, reflets, and telfers, 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 foretells turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forest, freest, softer, and trolls. For points, the strongest plays are feller, felloe, fester, fetors, fleers, fleets, floret, flotel, folles, forest, fortes, foster, freest, lefter, lofter, refell, refels, refelt, reflet, softer, and telfer — 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foretells. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels, flees, forts, lefts, loser, roles, and rolls. For points, the strongest plays are feels, fells, felts, feres, fetes, fetor, fleer, flees, fleet, floes, fores, forte, forts, frees, frets, froes, frost, lefts, lofts, ofter, reefs, refel, and rolfs — 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 foretells produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, feel, fees, feet, fell, felt, and flee. For points, the strongest plays are efts, feel, fees, feet, fell, felt, fere, fest, fete, fets, flee, floe, foes, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, left, loft, reef, refs, reft, rolf, self, serf, soft, and tref — 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 foretells turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, for, let, lot, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, elf, fee, fer, fes, fet, foe, for, fro, oft, and ref — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foretells. If a familiar word is all you need, start with of, or, 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.
Swap a single tile in foretells 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.
foretells 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for foretells. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
foretells is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing foretells unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is foretells, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from foretells 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 foretells produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.