Hidden inside formulae sit formulae and fumarole, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
formulae and fumarole tie for the highest Scrabble score from formulae at 13 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in formulae: one comes from rearranging its letters, and formulae itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with formulae. For points, the strongest plays are formulae and fumarole — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in formulae produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with formula. For points, the strongest plays are femoral and formula — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling formulae turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are armful, femora, flamer and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formulae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flame, frame and lamer. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including flame, frame and femur.
Rearranging the letters in formulae produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fame, farm and fear. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including fame, farm and foam.
Unscrambling formulae turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ear. For points, the strongest plays are fam and fem — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formulae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, me and of. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in formulae plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in formulae 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.
formulae 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
formulae is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing formulae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are formulae and fumarole, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from formulae 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 formulae produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.