Hidden inside philters sit philters and philtres, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
philters and philtres tie for the highest Scrabble score from philters at 13 points. The top 10 of 264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in philters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and philters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are philters and philtres, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in philters produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hipster, hirples, philter, and philtre, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling philters turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, stripe, theirs, and triple. For points, the strongest plays are hirple, perish, pisher, reship, spilth, and thrips — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in philters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with helps, hires, piles, shier, shirt, slept, and spelt. For points, the strongest plays are helps, piths, shlep, thesp, and thrip — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in philters produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with help, hers, hips, hire, hits, lets, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are help, heps, hips, pehs, phis, pish, pith, and ship — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling philters turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hip, his, hit, its, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hip, peh, phi, and pht — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in philters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — 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 philters and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
philters 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 one sense for philters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
philters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing philters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are philters and philtres, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from philters 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 philters produce 264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.