Hidden inside farfel sit farfel and raffle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
farfel and raffle tie for the highest Scrabble score from farfel at 12 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in farfel: one comes from rearranging its letters, and farfel itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farfel and raffle, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in farfel. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farle, feral, and flare, 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 farfel produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fear, leaf, and real. For points, the strongest play is raff — 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 farfel turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, elf, era, and far. For points, the strongest plays are aff and eff — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in farfel. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef, fa, and fe, 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 farfel and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
farfel 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.
farfel is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing farfel unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are farfel and raffle, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from farfel 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 farfel produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.