Hidden inside refusing sit gunfires and refusing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gunfires and refusing tie for the highest Scrabble score from refusing at 12 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in refusing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refusing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refusing. For points, the strongest plays are gunfires and refusing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in refusing produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with figures and fingers. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including figures, fingers and fringes.
Unscrambling refusing turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with figure, finger and genius. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including figure, finger and griefs.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refusing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires and fries. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including grief, feign and frigs.
Rearranging the letters in refusing produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire and furs. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including figs, frig and frug.
Unscrambling refusing turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fun, fur and gun. For points, the strongest plays are fig, fug, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refusing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in refusing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in refusing 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.
refusing 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
refusing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refusing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gunfires and refusing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refusing 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 refusing produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.