Hidden inside postfaces sit postfaces and softscape, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 359 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postfaces and softscape tie for the highest Scrabble score from postfaces at 16 points. The top 10 of 359 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in postfaces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and postfaces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are postfaces and softscape, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling postfaces produces exactly one eight-letter word: postface. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in postfaces produces 8 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 aspects, capotes, scapose, and toecaps, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling postfaces turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coasts, fatsos, safest, and spaces. For points, the strongest plays are facets and fasces — 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 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postfaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafes, capes, cases, casts, coast, coats, and costs. For points, the strongest plays are cafes, faces, facet, and facts — 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 postfaces produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes, cafe, cape, caps, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, cafs, coft, face, fact, and fops — 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 postfaces turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape, ass, ate, cap, cat, and cop. For points, the strongest plays are caf and fop — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postfaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, of, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in postfaces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postfaces 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.
postfaces 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.
postfaces is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postfaces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are postfaces and softscape, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from postfaces 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 postfaces produce 359 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.