Hidden inside falcons sit falcons and flacons, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
falcons and flacons tie for the highest Scrabble score from falcons at 12 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in falcons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and falcons 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 falcons and flacons, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling falcons 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 falcon and flacon, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in falcons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colas and loans. For points, the strongest plays are calfs, flocs, and focal — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in falcons produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, calf, cans, cola, cons, fans, and loaf. For points, the strongest plays are cafs, calf, and floc — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling falcons turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, con, fan, and son. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 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 falcons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, no, of, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are fa and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in falcons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in falcons 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.
falcons 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 3-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 falcons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
falcons is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing falcons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are falcons and flacons, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from falcons 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 falcons produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.