Hidden inside fosters sit forests and fosters, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forests and fosters tie for the highest Scrabble score from fosters at 10 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in fosters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fosters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forests. For points, the strongest plays are forests and fosters — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fosters turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forest, softer, sorest, and stores. For points, the strongest plays are fetors, forest, fortes, foster, frosts, 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forts, rests, roses, sorts, and store. For points, the strongest plays are fests, fetor, fores, forte, forts, fosse, frets, froes, frost, ofter, serfs, and softs — 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 fosters produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fort, rest, rose, sets, soft, sore, and sort. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fess, fest, fets, foes, fore, fort, foss, 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 fosters turns up 29 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 fosters. 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 fosters and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
fosters 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 fosters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for fosters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
fosters is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fosters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are forests and fosters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fosters 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 fosters produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.