Hidden inside fantails sit fantails and tailfans, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fantails and tailfans tie for the highest Scrabble score from fantails at 11 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in fantails: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fantails 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 fantails and tailfans, 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 fantails produces 4 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 antifas, fantail, and tailfan, 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 fantails turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finals. For points, the strongest plays are antifa, faints, finals, flints, and tafias — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fantails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fails, final, lifts, nails, saint, stain, and tails. For points, the strongest plays are alfas, alifs, fails, faint, fatal, fiats, final, flans, flats, flint, flits, lifts, naifs, and tafia — 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 fantails produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, fail, fans, fast, fist, fits, and flat. For points, the strongest plays are alfa, alif, fail, fain, fans, fast, fats, fiat, fila, fils, fins, fist, fits, flan, flat, flit, lift, naif, and sift — 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 fantails turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, fan, fat, fit, its, lit, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aft, fan, fas, fat, fil, fin, fit, and ifs — 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 fantails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, if, in, is, and it. 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.
Swap a single tile in fantails 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.
fantails 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 2-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 fantails. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
fantails is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fantails unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fantails and tailfans, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fantails 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 fantails produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.