Hidden inside lefts sit felts and lefts, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
felts and lefts tie for the highest Scrabble score from lefts at 8 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in lefts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lefts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lefts. For points, the strongest plays are felts and lefts — 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 lefts produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with felt, left, lets, and self. For points, the strongest plays are efts, felt, fest, fets, left, and self — 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 lefts turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, let, and set. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, elf, fes, and fet — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lefts. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef and fe, 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 lefts and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
lefts 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 ten senses for lefts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lefts is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lefts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are felts and lefts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lefts 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 lefts produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.