Hidden inside friendlies sit friendlies and infielders, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 455 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
friendlies and infielders tie for the highest Scrabble score from friendlies at 14 points. The top 10 of 455 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in friendlies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and friendlies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are friendlies and infielders, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling friendlies turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is infielder, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friendlies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defilers, definers, deifiers and 6 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in friendlies produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defines, friends, and reliefs. For points, 24 words tie at 11 points, including defines, friends and defiers.
Unscrambling friendlies turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with define, denies and desire. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including define, fields and friend.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friendlies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, delis and diner. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including feeds, field and filed.
Rearranging the letters in friendlies produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli and dies. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including feed, find and fled.
Unscrambling friendlies turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, elf and end. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friendlies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in friendlies plus one additional letter.
friendlies 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 five senses for friendlies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
friendlies is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing friendlies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are friendlies and infielders, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from friendlies 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 friendlies produce 455 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.