Hidden inside affairs sit affairs and raffias, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
affairs and raffias tie for the highest Scrabble score from affairs at 13 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in affairs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and affairs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with affairs. For points, the strongest plays are affairs and raffias — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling affairs turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with affair. For points, the strongest plays are affair and raffia — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in affairs. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are raffs and riffs, 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 affairs produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs and fair. For points, the strongest plays are raff and riff — 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 affairs turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, far, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are aff and iff — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in affairs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are fa 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in affairs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in affairs 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.
affairs 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in affairs carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for affairs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
affairs is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing affairs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are affairs and raffias, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from affairs 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 affairs produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.