Hidden inside strifes sit resifts, sifters, and strifes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resifts, sifters, and strifes tie for the highest Scrabble score from strifes at 10 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in strifes: two come from rearranging its letters, and strifes 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 resifts, sifters, and strifes, 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 strifes turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist and sister. For points, the strongest plays are feists, firsts, frises, frites, refits, resift, rifest, serifs, sifter, and strife — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strifes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fires, first, fists, fries, rests, rises, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are feist, fests, fires, first, fists, frets, fries, frise, frits, refit, reifs, rifts, seifs, serfs, serif, and sifts — 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 strifes produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fire, fist, fits, rest, rise, sets, and sirs. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fess, fest, fets, fire, firs, fist, fits, fret, frit, refs, reft, reif, rife, rifs, rift, seif, serf, sift, and tref — 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 strifes turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, its, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fer, fes, fet, fie, fir, fit, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strifes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, and it. 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 strifes 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.
strifes 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in strifes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for strifes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
strifes is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strifes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resifts, sifters, and strifes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strifes 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 strifes produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.