typefaces needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
typefaces is the highest-scoring word from typefaces, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in typefaces — and it is typefaces itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in typefaces. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is typeface, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in typefaces produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ectypes, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling typefaces turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with escape and safety. For points, the strongest plays are casefy and tepefy — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in typefaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafes, capes, cease, faces, facts, fates, and feces. For points, the strongest play is fyces — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in typefaces produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes, cafe, cape, caps, case, and cast. For points, the strongest play is fyce — 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 typefaces turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape, ate, aye, cap, cat, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are fay and fey — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in typefaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ef, fa, fe, ya, and ye — 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 typefaces and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
typefaces 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 typefaces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
typefaces is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing typefaces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is typefaces, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from typefaces 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 typefaces produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.