Hidden inside raffles sit farfels and raffles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EAFFRLS or ELFRFAS and you get the same 7 letters as RAFFLES: so the words from RAFFLES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
farfels and raffles tie for the highest Scrabble score from raffles at 13 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in raffles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and raffles 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 farfels and raffles, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raffles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with false, fears, laser, and safer. For points, the strongest play is raffs — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in raffles produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras and fear. For points, the strongest plays are effs and raff — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling raffles turns up 28 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raffles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in raffles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in raffles 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.
raffles 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 one sense for raffles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
raffles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raffles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are farfels and raffles, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raffles 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 raffles produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.