Hidden inside friend sit finder, friend, redfin and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble FIRDEN, FRIEDN or DENRFI and you get the same 6 letters as FRIEND: so the words from FRIEND listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
finder, friend, redfin and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from friend at 10 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in friend: three come from rearranging its letters, and friend itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with friend. For points, the strongest plays are finder, friend, redfin, and refind — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, finer, fired, and fried. For points, the strongest plays are fiend, fined, fired, and fried — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in friend produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, find and fine. For points, the strongest plays are defi, fend, and find — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling friend turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and fed. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in friend plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in friend 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.
friend 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for friend. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
friend is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing friend unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are finder, friend, redfin, and refind, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from friend 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 friend produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.