favourite needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
favourite is the highest-scoring word from favourite, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in favourite — and it is favourite itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling favourite produces exactly one eight-letter word: favorite. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in favourite produces 6 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 furtive, overfat, and overfit, 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 favourite 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 favour, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in favourite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, favor, fruit, outer, route, uteri, and voter. For points, the strongest plays are fauve, faver, favor, fiver, and fovea — 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 favourite produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, fair, fate, fear, fire, five, and fort. For points, the strongest plays are fave and five — 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 favourite turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest play is fav — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in favourite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, if, it, of, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in favourite plus one additional letter.
favourite is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record five senses for favourite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
favourite is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing favourite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is favourite, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from favourite 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 favourite produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.