Hidden inside refracts sit crafters and refracts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crafters and refracts tie for the highest Scrabble score from refracts at 13 points. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in refracts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refracts 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 crafters and refracts, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refracts produces 10 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 crafter, farcers, refract, and scarfer, 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 refracts turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, caters, faster, rarest, and reacts. For points, the strongest plays are crafts, facers, facets, farcer, and farces — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refracts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, cafes, cares, carts, cater, faces, and facts. For points, the strongest plays are cafes, craft, facer, faces, facet, facts, farce, and scarf — 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 refracts produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, cafe, care, cars, cart, and case. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, cafs, 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 refracts turns up 47 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refracts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in refracts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in refracts 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.
refracts 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 refracts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
refracts is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refracts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crafters and refracts, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refracts 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 refracts produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.