fortifies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 208 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fortifies is the highest-scoring word from fortifies, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 208 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in fortifies — and it is fortifies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fortifies produces exactly one eight-letter word: forfeits. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fortifies produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with efforts, fifties, and forties. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including efforts, fifties and forfeit.
Unscrambling fortifies turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with effort, forest, offers, and softer. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including effort, offers and fifers.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fortifies. 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 fortifies produces 65 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 fortifies 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 fortifies. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in fortifies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fortifies 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.
fortifies 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 fortifies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for fortifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
fortifies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fortifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fortifies, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fortifies 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 fortifies produce 208 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.