forfeits needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forfeits is the highest-scoring word from forfeits, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in forfeits — and it is forfeits itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in forfeits produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with efforts and forties. For points, the strongest plays are efforts, forfeit, stiffer, and toffies — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling forfeits turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with effort, forest, offers, and softer. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including effort, offers and fifers.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forfeits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fires, first and forts. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including offer, fiefs and fifer.
Rearranging the letters in forfeits produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fire, fist and fits. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including effs, fief and fife.
Unscrambling forfeits turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, for and its. For points, the strongest plays are eff, iff, and off — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forfeits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in forfeits plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in forfeits and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
forfeits 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 forfeits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for forfeits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
forfeits is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing forfeits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is forfeits, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from forfeits 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 forfeits produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.