Hidden inside fodder sit fodder and forded, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fodder and forded tie for the highest Scrabble score from fodder at 11 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in fodder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fodder 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 fodder and forded, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling fodder produces exactly one five-letter word: odder. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fodder produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rode. For points, the strongest plays are feod and ford — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fodder turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fed, for, odd, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fodder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, of, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, 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 fodder 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.
fodder 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in fodder carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for fodder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
fodder is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fodder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fodder and forded, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fodder 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 fodder produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.