Hidden inside fosterage sit forestage and fosterage, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 446 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forestage and fosterage tie for the highest Scrabble score from fosterage at 13 points. The top 10 of 446 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in fosterage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fosterage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are forestage and fosterage, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterage. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fagoters and gorefest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fosterage produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forgets and storage. For points, the strongest plays are fagoter, forages, forgets, and serfage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fosterage turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easter, faster, forest, forget, freest, and grease. For points, the strongest plays are fagots, forage, forgat, forges, forget, gofers, and grafts — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, agree, erase, fates, fatso, fears, and forts. For points, the strongest plays are fagot, forge, frags, frogs, gofer, and graft — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fosterage produces 146 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts, ears, ease, east, eats, and egos. For points, the strongest plays are fags, fogs, frag, and frog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fosterage turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are fag and fog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, of, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in fosterage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fosterage 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.
fosterage 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for fosterage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
fosterage is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fosterage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are forestage and fosterage, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fosterage 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 fosterage produce 446 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 146 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.