Hidden inside gofers sit forges and gofers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forges and gofers tie for the highest Scrabble score from gofers at 10 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in gofers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gofers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are forges and gofers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gofers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with frogs. For points, the strongest plays are forge, frogs, and gofer — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gofers produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, fogs and frog. For points, the strongest plays are fogs and frog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gofers turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, fog, and for. For points, the strongest play is fog — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gofers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, of, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in gofers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gofers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
gofers 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 one sense for gofers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
gofers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gofers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are forges and gofers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gofers 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 gofers produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.