Hidden inside infields sit infidels and infields, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infidels and infields tie for the highest Scrabble score from infields at 12 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in infields: one comes from rearranging its letters, and infields itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are infidels and infields, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in infields produces 3 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 infidel and infield, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling infields turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fields and inside. For points, the strongest plays are felids, fields, and fiends — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infields. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dines and field. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including field, filed and finds.
Rearranging the letters in infields produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and dine. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including find, fled and defi.
Unscrambling infields turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, elf and end. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infields. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in infields plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in infields and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
infields 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 infields. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
infields is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infields unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are infidels and infields, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from infields 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 infields produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.