Hidden inside refutal sit refutal and tearful, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
refutal and tearful tie for the highest Scrabble score from refutal at 10 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in refutal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refutal 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 refutal and tearful, 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 refutal turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are artful, earful, falter, ferula, and fluter, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refutal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, alert, alter, fault, flute, and later. For points, the strongest plays are after, farle, fault, feral, fetal, feuar, flare, flute, and trefa — 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 refutal produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fate, fear, felt, flat, late, leaf, and left. For points, the strongest plays are alef, fare, farl, fart, fate, feal, fear, feat, felt, feta, flat, flea, flue, frae, frat, fret, fuel, furl, leaf, left, raft, reft, tref, tufa, and turf — 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 refutal turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, elf, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, eft, elf, far, fat, fer, fet, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refutal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. 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 refutal 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.
refutal 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 one sense for refutal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
refutal is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refutal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are refutal and tearful, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refutal 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 refutal produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.