Hidden inside fringe sit finger and fringe, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
finger and fringe tie for the highest Scrabble score from fringe at 10 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in fringe: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fringe itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger. For points, the strongest plays are finger and fringe — 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fringe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer and grief. For points, the strongest plays are feign and grief — 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 fringe produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire, and ring. For points, the strongest play is frig — 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 fringe turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rig. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fringe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and in. 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 fringe 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.
fringe 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 eight senses for fringe. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
fringe is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fringe unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are finger and fringe, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fringe 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 fringe produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.