Hidden inside infest sit feints, finest, and infest, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feints, finest, and infest tie for the highest Scrabble score from infest at 9 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in infest: two come from rearranging its letters, and infest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finest. For points, the strongest plays are feints, finest, and infest — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infest. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feint, feist, fines, and neifs, 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 infest produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fist, fits, nest, nets, sent, and site. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fens, fest, fets, fine, fins, fist, fits, neif, seif, and sift — 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 infest turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, its, net, set, sin, sit, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fen, fes, fet, fie, fin, fit, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, 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 infest 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.
infest 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 three senses for infest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
infest is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feints, finest, and infest, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from infest 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 infest produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.