prefer needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prefer is the highest-scoring word from prefer, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in prefer — and it is prefer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prefer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freer and refer. For points, the strongest plays are freer, frere, and refer — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prefer. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef and fe, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in prefer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in prefer 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.
prefer 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 four senses for prefer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
prefer is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prefer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is prefer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from prefer 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 prefer produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.