Hidden inside funeral sit flaneur, frenula, and funeral, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flaneur, frenula, and funeral tie for the highest Scrabble score from funeral at 10 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in funeral: two come from rearranging its letters, and funeral itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with funeral. For points, the strongest plays are flaneur, frenula, and funeral — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling funeral turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earful, ferula, and furane, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in funeral. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learn. For points, the strongest plays are farle, feral, feuar, flare, frena, and furan — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in funeral produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, fear, lane, leaf, lean, lure, and near. For points, the strongest plays are alef, enuf, fane, fare, farl, faun, feal, fear, fern, flan, flea, flue, frae, fuel, furl, and leaf — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling funeral turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, elf, era, fan, far, and flu. For points, the strongest plays are arf, elf, fan, far, fen, fer, feu, flu, fun, fur, and ref — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in funeral. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — 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 funeral 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.
funeral 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 3-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 funeral. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
funeral is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing funeral unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flaneur, frenula, and funeral, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from funeral 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 funeral produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.