Hidden inside reflating sit faltering and reflating, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 510 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
faltering and reflating tie for the highest Scrabble score from reflating at 13 points. The top 10 of 510 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reflating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reflating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are faltering and reflating, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, relating, and triangle. For points, the strongest play is finagler — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reflating produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fearing, fragile, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are engraft, fangirl, farting, fatling, fearing, felting, finagle, flanger, flaring, flinger, fragile, frigate, ingraft, leafing, and rafting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reflating turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, finale, finger, and rating. For points, the strongest plays are faring, fating, feting, finger, flange, fringe, reflag, and regift — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, agent, alert, alien, alter, angel, and anger. For points, the strongest plays are fagin, feign, fling, ganef, graft, grief, and grift — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reflating produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, fail, fair, fate, fear, felt, and file. For points, the strongest plays are fang, flag, frag, frig, and gift — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reflating turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, if, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reflating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reflating and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
reflating 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
reflating is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reflating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are faltering and reflating, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reflating 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 reflating produce 510 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.