refuges needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
refuges is the highest-scoring word from refuges, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in refuges — and it is refuges itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling refuges turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refuse. For points, the strongest play is refuge — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refuges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with urges. For points, the strongest play is frugs — 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 refuges produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, free, furs, rugs, sure, and urge. For points, the strongest plays are frug and fugs — 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 refuges turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, fur, gee, rug, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest play is fug — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refuges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are ef 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 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in refuges plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in refuges 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.
refuges 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for refuges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
refuges is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refuges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is refuges, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from refuges 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 refuges produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.