Hidden inside refers sit freers, freres, and refers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
freers, freres, and refers tie for the highest Scrabble score from refers at 9 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in refers: two come from rearranging its letters, and refers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refers. For points, the strongest plays are freers, freres, and refers — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freer and refer. For points, the strongest plays are feres, freer, frees, frere, reefs, and refer — 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 refers produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees and free. For points, the strongest plays are fees, fere, free, reef, refs, and serf — 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 refers turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee and see. For points, the strongest plays are efs, fee, fer, fes, and ref — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refers. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef and fe, 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 refers 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.
refers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in refers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for refers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
refers is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are freers, freres, and refers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refers 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 refers produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.