Hidden inside fringes sit fingers and fringes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fingers and fringes tie for the highest Scrabble score from fringes at 11 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in fringes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fringes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fingers. For points, the strongest plays are fingers and fringes — 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 fringes turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger, griefs, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are feigns, finger, friges, fringe, and griefs — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fringes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires, fries, grief, rings, risen, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are feign, frigs, 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 fringes produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire, rigs, ring, rise, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are figs, frig, and gifs — 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 fringes turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rig, sin, and sir. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fringes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 fringes 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.
fringes 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 fringes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
fringes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fringes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fingers and fringes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fringes 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 fringes produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.