Hidden inside faces sit cafes and faces, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cafes and faces tie for the highest Scrabble score from faces at 10 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in faces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and faces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: cafes and faces, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in faces produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe, case, face, and safe. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, cafs, and face — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in faces and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
faces 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twenty-two senses for faces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
faces is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing faces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cafes and faces, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from faces 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 faces produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.