Hidden inside putrefies sit putrefies and stupefier, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 307 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
putrefies and stupefier tie for the highest Scrabble score from putrefies at 14 points. The top 10 of 307 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in putrefies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and putrefies 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 putrefies and stupefier, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in putrefies produces 9 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 perfuse and presift, 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 putrefies turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freest, fruits, priest, purest, refuse, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are fester, firees, freest, frisee, frites, fruits, furies, refits, refuse, refute, resift, rifest, sifter, and strife — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in putrefies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fetus, fires, first, fries, fruit, purse, and setup. For points, the strongest plays are feist, feres, fetes, fetus, firee, fires, first, frees, frets, fries, frise, frits, fruit, fusee, reefs, refit, reifs, rifts, serif, and turfs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in putrefies produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, feet, fire, fist, fits, free, and furs. For points, the strongest play is pfui — 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 putrefies turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, fit, fur, its, pee, per, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fee, fer, fes, fet, feu, fie, fir, fit, fur, ifs, ref, and rif — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in putrefies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, it, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in putrefies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in putrefies 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.
putrefies 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 putrefies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
putrefies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing putrefies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are putrefies and stupefier, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from putrefies 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 putrefies produce 307 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.