Hidden inside refill sit filler and refill, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filler and refill tie for the highest Scrabble score from refill at 9 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in refill: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refill 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 filler and refill, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refill. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are filer, fille, flier, frill, lifer, and rifle, 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 refill produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fell, file, fill, fire, and life. For points, the strongest plays are fell, file, fill, fire, flir, lief, life, reif, and rife — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refill turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, ill, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are elf, fer, fie, fil, fir, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refill. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if. 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.
Swap a single tile in refill 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.
refill 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 three senses for refill. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
refill is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refill unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are filler and refill, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refill 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 refill produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.