refrain needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
refrain is the highest-scoring word from refrain, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in refrain — and it is refrain itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling refrain turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairer. For points, the strongest plays are fainer, fairer, and infare — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refrain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer. For points, the strongest plays are afire, farer, feria, finer, firer, frena, friar, frier, infer, infra, and rifer — 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 refrain produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, fair, fear, fine, fire, near, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are fain, fair, fane, fare, fear, fern, fiar, fine, fire, firn, frae, naif, neif, reif, and rife — 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 refrain turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, fan, far, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are arf, fan, far, fen, fer, fie, fin, fir, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refrain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, if, and in. 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.
Swap a single tile in refrain 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.
refrain 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 three senses for refrain. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
refrain is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refrain unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is refrain, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from refrain 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 refrain produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.