refrained needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
refrained is the highest-scoring word from refrained, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in refrained — and it is refrained itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refrained. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inferred, infrared, and rarefied, each 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 refrained produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with readier. For points, the strongest plays are definer, ferried, refined, refired, and refried — 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 refrained turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, dearer, define, earned, errand, fairer, and feared. For points, the strongest plays are deafen, deafer, defier, define, fadein, faired, feared, fender, finder, friend, infeed, redfin, and refind — 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refrained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, diner, drain, drier, finer, fired, and freer. For points, the strongest plays are defer, fader, fared, fiend, fined, fired, freed, fried, and refed — 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 refrained produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deaf, dear, deer, dine, earn, and fair. For points, the strongest plays are deaf, defi, fade, fard, feed, fend, and find — 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 refrained turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, are, die, ear, and end. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fad, fed, and fid — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refrained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, 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 refrained 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.
refrained 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.
refrained is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refrained unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is refrained, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from refrained 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 refrained produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.