Hidden inside reliefs sit ferlies, refiles, reflies and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferlies, refiles, reflies and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reliefs at 10 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in reliefs: three come from rearranging its letters, and reliefs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reliefs. For points, the strongest plays are ferlies, refiles, reflies, and reliefs — 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 reliefs turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relief and relies. For points, the strongest plays are ferlie, filers, firees, fleers, fliers, frisee, liefer, lifers, refels, refile, relief, rifles, and selfie — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reliefs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels, files, fires, flees, flies, and fries. For points, the strongest plays are feels, feres, filer, files, firee, fires, fleer, flees, flier, flies, flirs, frees, fries, frise, lifer, reefs, refel, reifs, rifle, and serif — 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 reliefs produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, feel, fees, file, fire, flee, and free. For points, the strongest plays are feel, fees, fere, file, fils, fire, firs, flee, flir, free, lief, life, reef, refs, reif, rife, rifs, seif, self, and serf — 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 reliefs turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, lie, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are efs, elf, fee, fer, fes, fie, fil, fir, ifs, ref, and rif — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reliefs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — 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 reliefs 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.
reliefs 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for reliefs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
reliefs is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reliefs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ferlies, refiles, reflies, and reliefs, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reliefs 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 reliefs produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.