Hidden inside trefoil sit loftier and trefoil, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loftier and trefoil tie for the highest Scrabble score from trefoil at 10 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in trefoil: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trefoil 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 loftier and trefoil, 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 trefoil turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are filter, floret, lifter, lofter, and trifle, 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trefoil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirt. For points, the strongest plays are fetor, filer, filet, flier, flirt, flite, forte, lifer, ofter, refit, and rifle — 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 trefoil produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with felt, file, fire, fort, left, life, and lift. For points, the strongest plays are felt, file, filo, fire, flir, flit, floe, foil, fore, fort, fret, frit, froe, left, lief, life, lift, loft, reft, reif, rife, rift, rolf, 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 trefoil turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fit, for, let, lie, lit, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are eft, elf, fer, fet, fie, fil, fir, fit, foe, for, fro, oft, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trefoil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, it, of, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, 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 trefoil 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.
trefoil 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 three senses for trefoil. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
trefoil is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trefoil unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loftier and trefoil, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trefoil 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 trefoil produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.