Hidden inside founts sit founts and futons, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
founts and futons tie for the highest Scrabble score from founts at 9 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in founts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and founts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are founts and futons, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in founts. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fonts, fount, futon, and tofus, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in founts produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuts, soft, and tons. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including soft, fons and font.
Unscrambling founts turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fun, not and nut. For points, the strongest plays are fon, fou, fun, and oft — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in founts and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
founts 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for founts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
founts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing founts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are founts and futons, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from founts 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 founts produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.