Hidden inside philtre sit philter and philtre, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
philter and philtre tie for the highest Scrabble score from philtre at 12 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in philtre: one comes from rearranging its letters, and philtre 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 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 philtre turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with triple. For points, the strongest play is hirple — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in philtre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with their. For points, the strongest play is thrip — 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 philtre produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with help, hire, pile, tire, and trip. For points, the strongest plays are help and pith — 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 philtre turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hip, hit, let, lie, lip, and lit. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in philtre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — 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 philtre 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.
philtre 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 philtre. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
philtre is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing philtre unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are philter and philtre, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from philtre 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 philtre produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.