Hidden inside inferable sit inferable and refinable, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inferable and refinable tie for the highest Scrabble score from inferable at 14 points. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in inferable: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inferable itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inferable and refinable, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inferable. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are afebrile, balefire, fineable, and fireable, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in inferable produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are febrile, finable, and friable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling inferable turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belief, finale, and relief. For points, the strongest plays are beflea, belief, and fabler — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inferable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, alien and brain. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including brief, barfi and fable.
Rearranging the letters in inferable produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and bare. For points, the strongest plays are barf, beef, feeb, and flab — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling inferable turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ban. For points, the strongest plays are fab and fib — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inferable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, be, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in inferable plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in inferable and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
inferable 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.
inferable is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inferable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inferable and refinable, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inferable 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 inferable produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.