Hidden inside foundered sit foundered and refounded, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
foundered and refounded tie for the highest Scrabble score from foundered at 14 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in foundered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and foundered 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 foundered and refounded, each worth 14 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 foundered. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are refunded and underfed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in foundered produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with founded and rounded. For points, the strongest plays are fondued, founded, and fronded — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling foundered turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defend and refund. For points, the strongest plays are defend, defund, fended, feuded, fodder, fonded, forded, and funded — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foundered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended, found, nuder, round, and under. For points, the strongest plays are defer, feued, fondu, found, freed, frond, refed, and unfed — 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 foundered produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, done, dude, feed, four, and free. For points, the strongest plays are feed, fend, feod, feud, fond, ford, and fund — 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 foundered turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, fed, fee, for, fun, and fur. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fud — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foundered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, of, on, and or. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in foundered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in foundered 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.
foundered 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
foundered is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing foundered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foundered and refounded, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from foundered 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 foundered produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.