Hidden inside foster sit fetors, forest, fortes and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fetors, forest, fortes and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from foster at 9 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in foster: four come from rearranging its letters, and foster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forest and softer. For points, the strongest plays are fetors, forest, fortes, foster, and softer — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forts and store. For points, the strongest plays are fetor, fores, forte, forts, frets, froes, frost, and ofter — 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 foster produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fort, rest, rose, soft, sore, sort, and toes. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fest, fets, foes, fore, fort, fret, froe, refs, reft, 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 foster turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foster. 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 foster and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
foster 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 foster carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for foster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
foster is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing foster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fetors, forest, fortes, foster, and softer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from foster 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 foster produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.