Hidden inside refits sit frites, refits, resift and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
frites, refits, resift and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from refits at 9 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in refits: five come from rearranging its letters, and refits 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 frites, refits, resift, rifest, sifter, and strife, 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fires, first, fries, tires, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are feist, fires, first, frets, fries, frise, frits, refit, reifs, rifts, and serif — 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 refits produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fire, fist, fits, rest, rise, site, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fest, fets, fire, firs, fist, fits, fret, frit, refs, reft, reif, rife, rifs, rift, seif, serf, sift, 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 refits turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, its, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fer, fes, fet, fie, fir, fit, ifs, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, 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 refits 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.
refits 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 refits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for refits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
refits is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are frites, refits, resift, rifest, sifter, and strife, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refits 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 refits produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.