Hidden inside ruleaf sit earful and ferula, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RULEAF isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EARFUL and FERULA.
earful and ferula tie for the highest Scrabble score from ruleaf at 9 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling ruleaf turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earful and ferula, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ruleaf. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farle, feral, feuar, and flare, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ruleaf produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fear, leaf and lure. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including fear, leaf and alef.
Unscrambling ruleaf turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and elf. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including elf, far and flu.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ruleaf. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef, fa, and fe, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
15 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ruleaf plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ruleaf 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earful and ferula, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ruleaf 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 ruleaf produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.