Hidden inside loafers sit loafers and safrole, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loafers and safrole tie for the highest Scrabble score from loafers at 10 points. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in loafers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and loafers 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 loafers and safrole, 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 loafers turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falser. For points, the strongest plays are falser, farles, ferals, flares, florae, floras, loafer, and safrol — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loafers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with false, fears, laser, loser, roles, safer, and solar. For points, the strongest plays are afore, afros, alefs, false, fares, farle, farls, faros, fears, feral, flare, fleas, floes, flora, foals, fores, froes, leafs, loafs, rolfs, safer, and sofar — 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 loafers produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ears, eras, fear, leaf, loaf, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are afro, alef, arfs, fare, farl, faro, feal, fear, flea, floe, foal, foes, fora, fore, frae, froe, leaf, loaf, oafs, refs, rolf, safe, self, serf, and sofa — 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 loafers turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, elf, era, far, for, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are arf, efs, elf, far, fas, fer, fes, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loafers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, of, or, and so. 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 loafers 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.
loafers 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 loafers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
loafers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loafers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loafers and safrole, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loafers 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 loafers produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.