Hidden inside footer sit foetor and footer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
foetor and footer tie for the highest Scrabble score from footer at 9 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in footer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and footer 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 foetor and footer, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fetor, forte, and ofter, 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 footer produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with foot, fort, roof, root, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are foot, fore, fort, fret, froe, reft, roof, and tref — 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 footer turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, toe, and too. For points, the strongest plays are eft, fer, fet, foe, foo, for, fro, oft, oof, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with of, or, and to. 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 footer 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.
footer 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 footer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for footer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
footer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing footer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foetor and footer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from footer 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 footer produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.