Hidden inside frumenty sit frumenty and furmenty, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
frumenty and furmenty tie for the highest Scrabble score from frumenty at 16 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in frumenty: one comes from rearranging its letters, and frumenty itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are frumenty and furmenty, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in frumenty produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is furmety, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling frumenty turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tumefy, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in frumenty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entry. For points, the strongest plays are ferny, treyf, and turfy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in frumenty produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, rent, term, true, tune, and turn. For points, the strongest play is fumy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling frumenty turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fry, fun, fur, men, met, net, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are fey and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in frumenty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my, and um. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 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 frumenty and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
frumenty 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 one sense for frumenty. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
frumenty is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing frumenty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are frumenty and furmenty, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from frumenty 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 frumenty produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.