Hidden inside raffle sit farfel and raffle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble FFEALR, FLAFRE or RAFLEF and you get the same 6 letters as RAFFLE: so the words from RAFFLE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
farfel and raffle tie for the highest Scrabble score from raffle at 12 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in raffle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and raffle itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farfel and raffle, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raffle. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farle, feral, and flare, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in raffle produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fear, leaf, and real. For points, the strongest play is raff — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling raffle turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and elf. For points, the strongest plays are aff and eff — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raffle. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef, fa, and fe, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in raffle plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in raffle 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.
raffle 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 two senses for raffle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
raffle is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raffle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are farfel and raffle, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raffle 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 raffle produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.