Hidden inside foundering sit foundering and refounding, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 394 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
foundering and refounding tie for the highest Scrabble score from foundering at 15 points. The top 10 of 394 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in foundering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and foundering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are foundering and refounding, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling foundering turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fondueing and refunding, 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 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foundering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with founding and rounding. For points, the strongest plays are fonduing, founding, and unforged — 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 foundering produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dungeon, figured, foreign, funnier, ignored, reunion, and undoing. For points, the strongest plays are fending, feuding, figured, firedog, fonding, fording, fringed, fudgier, funding, and fungoid — 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 foundering turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinner, during, ending, figure, finger, fridge, and friend. For points, the strongest plays are forged and fridge — 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 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foundering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, doing, finer, fired, found, fried, and fudge. For points, the strongest plays are defog, fidge, and fudge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in foundering produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, done, drug, find, fine, fire, and four. For points, the strongest plays are defi, fend, feod, feud, fido, find, fond, ford, frig, frog, frug, 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 foundering turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dog, due, dug, ego, and end. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, fid, fig, fog, fud, fug, and gif — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foundering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, if, in, no, and of. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, 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 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in foundering plus one additional letter.
foundering 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for foundering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
foundering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing foundering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foundering and refounding, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from foundering 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 foundering produce 394 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.