fountains needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fountains is the highest-scoring word from fountains, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in fountains — and it is fountains itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fountains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fountain. For points, the strongest plays are fontinas and fountain — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fountains produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nations. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including fanions, faunist and fontina.
Unscrambling fountains turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nation and unions. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including faints, fanion and fanons.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fountains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and fatso. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including fatso, faint and fanon.
Rearranging the letters in fountains produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including fans, fast and fist.
Unscrambling fountains turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, fan and fat. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including fan, fat and fit.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fountains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are fa, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in fountains 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.
fountains 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for fountains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
fountains is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fountains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fountains, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fountains 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 fountains produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.