Hidden inside grafter sit grafter and regraft, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grafter and regraft tie for the highest Scrabble score from grafter at 11 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in grafter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grafter 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 grafter and regraft, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grafter 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 frater and rafter, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grafter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after and great. For points, the strongest play is graft — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grafter produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fate, fear and gate. For points, the strongest play is frag — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grafter turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, the strongest play is fag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grafter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in grafter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grafter 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.
grafter 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.
grafter is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grafter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grafter and regraft, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grafter 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 grafter produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.