Hidden inside triflers sit flirters and triflers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flirters and triflers tie for the highest Scrabble score from triflers at 11 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in triflers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and triflers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are flirters and triflers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in triflers produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are filters, flirter, lifters, riflers, stifler, trifler, and trifles, 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 triflers turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirts and itself. For points, the strongest plays are filers, filets, filter, firers, fliers, fliest, flirts, flites, friers, frites, itself, lifers, lifter, refits, resift, rifest, rifler, rifles, sifter, stifle, strife, 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triflers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with files, fires, first, flies, flirt, fries, and lefts. For points, the strongest plays are feist, felts, filer, files, filet, firer, fires, first, flier, flies, flirs, flirt, flite, flits, frets, frier, fries, frise, frits, lefts, lifer, lifts, refit, reifs, rifer, rifle, rifts, and serif — 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 triflers produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with felt, file, fire, fist, fits, left, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are efts, felt, fest, fets, file, fils, fire, firs, fist, fits, flir, flit, fret, frit, left, lief, life, lift, refs, reft, reif, rife, rifs, rift, seif, self, 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 triflers turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fit, its, let, lie, lit, and set. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, elf, fer, fes, fet, fie, fil, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triflers. 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 triflers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
triflers 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 one sense for triflers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
triflers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing triflers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flirters and triflers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from triflers 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 triflers produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.