Hidden inside refocusing sit configures and refocusing, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 599 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
configures and refocusing tie for the highest Scrabble score from refocusing at 16 points. The top 10 of 599 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in refocusing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refocusing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are configures and refocusing, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refocusing turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are configure and frescoing, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refocusing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with focusing, refusing, and rescuing. For points, the strongest play is focusing — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refocusing produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with confuse, cursing, figures, fingers, forcing, foreign, and ignores. For points, the strongest play is forcing — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refocusing turns up 102 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, cousin, cruise, curing, figure, finger, and forces. For points, the strongest play is fungic — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 151 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refocusing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones, cores, corns, cries, cures, and curse. For points, the strongest plays are coifs, cuifs, curfs, fices, ficus, focus, force, and scurf — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refocusing produces 159 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone, cons, core, corn, cues, and cure. For points, the strongest plays are coif, corf, cuif, curf, fice, fico, fisc, foci, and fuci — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refocusing turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, ego, fog, for, fun, and fur. For points, the strongest plays are fig, fog, fug, 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refocusing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if, in, is, no, of, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in refocusing plus one additional letter.
refocusing 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for refocusing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
refocusing is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refocusing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are configures and refocusing, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refocusing 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 refocusing produce 599 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 102 six-letter words, 151 five-letter words, 159 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.