Hidden inside fosterers sit foresters, fosterers, and reforests, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
foresters, fosterers, and reforests tie for the highest Scrabble score from fosterers at 12 points. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in fosterers: two come from rearranging its letters, and fosterers 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 foresters, fosterers, and reforests, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with restores. For points, the strongest plays are forester, fortress, fosterer, and reforest — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fosterers produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forests and restore. For points, the strongest plays are ferrets, festers, forests, and fosters — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fosterers turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forest, freest and refers. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including forest, freest and refers.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forts, freer and refer. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including forts, freer and refer.
Rearranging the letters in fosterers produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, feet and fort. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including fees, feet and fort.
Unscrambling fosterers turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, for and see. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including fee, for and efs.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterers. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in fosterers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fosterers 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.
fosterers 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 fosterers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
fosterers is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fosterers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foresters, fosterers, and reforests, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fosterers 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 fosterers produce 206 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.