Hidden inside funerals sit flaneurs and funerals, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 244 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flaneurs and funerals tie for the highest Scrabble score from funerals at 11 points. The top 10 of 244 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in funerals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and funerals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with funerals. For points, the strongest plays are flaneurs and funerals — 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 funerals produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with funeral. For points, the strongest plays are earfuls, ferulas, flaneur, frenula, funeral, furanes, refusal, snarfle, and unsafer — 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 funerals turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falser and learns. For points, the strongest plays are earful, falser, farles, ferals, ferula, feuars, flanes, flares, furane, furans, and unsafe — 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in funerals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, false, fears, lanes, laser, leans, and learn. For points, the strongest plays are alefs, false, fanes, fares, farle, farls, fauns, fears, feral, ferns, feuar, flans, flare, fleas, flues, frena, fuels, furan, furls, fusel, leafs, safer, snafu, snarf, and sulfa — 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 funerals produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, earn, ears, eras, fans, fear, and flus. For points, the strongest plays are alef, arfs, enuf, fane, fans, fare, farl, faun, feal, fear, fens, fern, feus, flan, flea, flue, flus, frae, fuel, funs, furl, furs, fuse, leaf, refs, safe, self, serf, and surf — 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 funerals turns up 51 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, efs, elf, fan, far, fas, fen, fer, fes, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in funerals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and us. 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 funerals 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.
funerals 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 funerals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
funerals is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing funerals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flaneurs and funerals, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from funerals 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 funerals produce 244 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.