Hidden inside infidel sit infidel and infield, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infidel and infield tie for the highest Scrabble score from infidel at 11 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in infidel: one comes from rearranging its letters, and infidel 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 infidel and infield, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infidel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with field, filed, and lined. For points, the strongest plays are felid, field, fiend, filed, fined, and flied — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in infidel produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dine, file, find, fine, fled, and lend. For points, the strongest plays are defi, delf, fend, find, and fled — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling infidel turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, elf, end, fed, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infidel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and in. 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 infidel 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.
infidel 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 2-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 infidel. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
infidel is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infidel unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are infidel and infield, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from infidel 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 infidel produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.