Hidden inside proofer sit proofer and reproof, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
proofer and reproof tie for the highest Scrabble score from proofer at 12 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in proofer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and proofer 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 proofer and reproof, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in proofer produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poor, roof, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are poof and prof — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proofer turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, per and poo. For points, the strongest play is fop — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proofer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with of and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in proofer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in proofer 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.
proofer 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.
proofer is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proofer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are proofer and reproof, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from proofer 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 proofer produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.