Hidden inside fustian sit faunist and fustian, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
faunist and fustian tie for the highest Scrabble score from fustian at 10 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in fustian: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fustian itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are faunist and fustian, 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 fustian turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are faints, fusain, and unfits, 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fustian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, saint, stain, tunas, and units. For points, the strongest plays are faint, fauns, fiats, naifs, snafu, tufas, and unfit — 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 fustian produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, aunt, fans, fast, fist, and fits. For points, the strongest plays are fain, fans, fast, fats, faun, fiat, fins, fist, fits, funs, naif, sift, and tufa — 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 fustian turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, fan, fat, fit, fun, its, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are aft, fan, fas, fat, fin, fit, fun, and ifs — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fustian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, if, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are fa 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 fustian 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.
fustian 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 two senses for fustian. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
fustian is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fustian unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are faunist and fustian, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fustian 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 fustian produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.