Hidden inside fretsaw sit fretsaw and wafters, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fretsaw and wafters tie for the highest Scrabble score from fretsaw at 13 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in fretsaw: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fretsaw itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fretsaw and wafters, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fretsaw turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster, rawest, and waters. For points, the strongest plays are wafers and wafter — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fretsaw. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates, fears, rates, safer, stare, and straw. For points, the strongest plays are swarf, wafer, wafts, and wefts — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fretsaw produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, fast, and fate. For points, the strongest plays are waft and weft — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fretsaw turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and far. For points, the strongest play is few — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fretsaw. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ef, ew, fa, fe, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in fretsaw and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
fretsaw 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 fretsaw carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for fretsaw. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
fretsaw is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fretsaw unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fretsaw and wafters, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fretsaw 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 fretsaw produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.