Hidden inside lefties sit felsite, lefties, and liefest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
felsite, lefties, and liefest tie for the highest Scrabble score from lefties at 10 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in lefties: two come from rearranging its letters, and lefties 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 felsite, lefties, and liefest, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lefties turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with itself. For points, the strongest plays are filets, fleets, fliest, flites, itself, leftie, selfie, and stifle — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lefties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels, files, flees, flies, lefts, lifts, and steel. For points, the strongest plays are feels, feist, felts, fetes, files, filet, flees, fleet, flies, flite, flits, lefts, and lifts — 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 lefties produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, feel, fees, feet, felt, file, and fist. For points, the strongest plays are efts, feel, fees, feet, felt, fest, fete, fets, file, fils, fist, fits, flee, flit, left, lief, life, lift, seif, self, 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 lefties turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, fit, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, elf, fee, fes, fet, fie, fil, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lefties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, 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 lefties 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.
lefties 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.
lefties is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lefties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are felsite, lefties, and liefest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lefties 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 lefties produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.