fraternity needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 325 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fraternity is the highest-scoring word from fraternity, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 325 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in fraternity — and it is fraternity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fraternity. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tertiary, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fraternity produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with terrify and trainer. For points, the strongest play is terrify — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fraternity turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairer and fatter. For points, 9 words tie at 12 points, including aerify, ferity and finery.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fraternity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, entry and fairy. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including fairy, fatty and faery.
Rearranging the letters in fraternity produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, fair and fate. For points, the strongest play is fray — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fraternity turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and any. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fraternity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ay, if and ef.
fraternity 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 fraternity carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for fraternity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
fraternity is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fraternity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fraternity, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fraternity 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 fraternity produce 325 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.