Hidden inside refusal sit earfuls, ferulas, and refusal, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earfuls, ferulas, and refusal tie for the highest Scrabble score from refusal at 10 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in refusal: two come from rearranging its letters, and refusal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earfuls, ferulas, and refusal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refusal turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falser. For points, the strongest plays are earful, falser, farles, ferals, ferula, feuars, and flares — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refusal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with false, fears, laser, lures, rules, and safer. For points, the strongest plays are alefs, false, fares, farle, farls, fears, feral, feuar, flare, fleas, flues, fuels, furls, fusel, leafs, safer, and sulfa — 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 refusal produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, fear, flus, furs, leaf, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are alef, arfs, fare, farl, feal, fear, feus, flea, flue, flus, frae, fuel, furl, furs, fuse, leaf, refs, safe, self, serf, and surf — 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 refusal turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, elf, era, far, flu, and fur. For points, the strongest plays are arf, efs, elf, far, fas, fer, fes, feu, flu, fur, and ref — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refusal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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 refusal 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.
refusal 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 two senses for refusal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
refusal is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refusal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earfuls, ferulas, and refusal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refusal 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 refusal produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.