Hidden inside refract sit crafter and refract, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crafter and refract tie for the highest Scrabble score from refract at 12 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in refract: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refract itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crafter and refract, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refract turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is farcer, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refract. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, cater, and react. For points, the strongest plays are craft, facer, facet, and farce — 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 refract produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe, care, cart, face, fact, fate, and fear. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, face, and fact — 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 refract turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and ear. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 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 refract. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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 refract and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
refract 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for refract. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
refract is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refract unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crafter and refract, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refract 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 refract produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.