Hidden inside festoon sit eftsoon and festoon, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eftsoon and festoon tie for the highest Scrabble score from festoon at 10 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in festoon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and festoon 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 eftsoon and festoon, 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 festoon produces exactly one six-letter word: soften. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in festoon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, often, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are fonts, foots, and often — 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 festoon produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with foot, nest, nets, nose, note, ones, and onto. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fens, fest, fets, foes, fons, font, foos, foot, and soft — 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 festoon turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, not, one, set, son, ten, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fen, fes, fet, foe, fon, foo, oft, and oof — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in festoon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, of, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, 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.
Swap a single tile in festoon 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.
festoon 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 four senses for festoon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
festoon is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing festoon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eftsoon and festoon, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from festoon 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 festoon produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.