Hidden inside refilter sit filterer and refilter, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filterer and refilter tie for the highest Scrabble score from refilter at 11 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in refilter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refilter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are filterer and refilter, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refilter produces 5 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 feltier, ferrite, fertile, flirter, and trifler, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refilter turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relief and retire. For points, the strongest plays are ferlie, ferrel, ferret, filter, lefter, leftie, liefer, lifter, refelt, refile, refire, reflet, relief, rifler, telfer, and trifle — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refilter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirt, freer, and refer. For points, the strongest plays are filer, filet, firee, firer, fleer, fleet, flier, flirt, flite, freer, frere, frier, lifer, refel, refer, refit, rifer, 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 refilter produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, feet, felt, file, fire, flee, and free. For points, the strongest plays are feel, feet, felt, fere, fete, file, fire, flee, flir, flit, free, fret, frit, left, lief, life, lift, reef, reft, reif, rife, rift, and tref — 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 refilter turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, fit, let, lie, lit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eft, elf, fee, fer, fet, fie, fil, fir, fit, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refilter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and it. 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 refilter and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
refilter 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.
refilter is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refilter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are filterer and refilter, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refilter 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 refilter produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.