Hidden inside loafer sit florae and loafer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
florae and loafer tie for the highest Scrabble score from loafer at 9 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in loafer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and loafer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are florae and loafer, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loafer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are afore, farle, feral, flare, and flora, 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 loafer produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fear, leaf, loaf, oral, real, and role. For points, the strongest plays are afro, alef, fare, farl, faro, feal, fear, flea, floe, foal, fora, fore, frae, froe, leaf, loaf, and rolf — 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 loafer turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, elf, era, far, and for. For points, the strongest plays are arf, elf, far, fer, foe, for, fro, oaf, and ref — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loafer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with of and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — 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 loafer 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.
loafer 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 two senses for loafer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
loafer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loafer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are florae and loafer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loafer 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 loafer produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.