pilferers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pilferers is the highest-scoring word from pilferers, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pilferers — and it is pilferers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pilferer, prefiles, and prefires, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pilferers produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prefers and reliefs. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including prefers, pilfers and prefile.
Unscrambling pilferers turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prefer, refers, relief, and relies. For points, the strongest plays are pilfer and prefer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels, files and fires. For points, the strongest plays are flips and pelfs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pilferers produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, feel and fees. For points, the strongest plays are flip and pelf — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pilferers turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee and lie. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including elf, fee and efs.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pilferers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pilferers 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 2-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 pilferers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pilferers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pilferers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pilferers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pilferers 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 pilferers produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.