Hidden inside refund sit funder and refund, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
funder and refund tie for the highest Scrabble score from refund at 10 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in refund: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refund itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refund. For points, the strongest plays are funder and refund — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refund. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuder and under. For points, the strongest play is unfed — 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 refund produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fund, nerd, nude, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are fend, feud, and fund — 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 refund turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, fed, fun, fur, red, and run. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fud — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refund. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words 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.
Swap a single tile in refund and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
refund 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 three senses for refund. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
refund is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refund unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are funder and refund, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refund 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 refund produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.