Hidden inside fallible sit fallible and fillable, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fallible and fillable tie for the highest Scrabble score from fallible at 13 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in fallible: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fallible 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 fallible and fillable, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling fallible turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is befall, worth 11 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 fallible. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fella and label. For points, the strongest play is fable — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fallible produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, ball, bell, bill, fail, and fall. For points, the strongest play is flab — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fallible turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, elf, ill, lab, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are fab and fib — each worth 8 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 fallible. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in fallible plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fallible 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.
fallible 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for fallible. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
fallible is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fallible unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fallible and fillable, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fallible 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 fallible produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.