Hidden inside friends sit finders, friends, redfins and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
finders, friends, redfins and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from friends at 11 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in friends: three come from rearranging its letters, and friends itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with friends. For points, the strongest plays are finders, friends, redfins, and refinds — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling friends turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diners and friend. For points, the strongest plays are fiends, finder, friend, redfin, and refind — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, dines, dries, finds, finer, fired, and fires. For points, the strongest plays are defis, fends, fiend, finds, fined, fired, and fried — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in friends produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, ends, find, fine, fire, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are defi, difs, feds, fend, fids, and find — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling friends turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, fed, ids, red, rid, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friends. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in friends 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.
friends 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 friends. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
friends is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing friends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are finders, friends, redfins, and refinds, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from friends 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 friends produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.