ferreted needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ferreted is the highest-scoring word from ferreted, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ferreted — and it is ferreted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ferreted turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defter, feeder, reefed, and refeed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ferreted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freer and refer. For points, the strongest plays are defer, feted, freed, and refed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ferreted produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed, feet, free, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are deft and feed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ferreted turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fed, fee, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 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 ferreted. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef 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 ferreted 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.
ferreted 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 ferreted carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
ferreted is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ferreted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ferreted, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ferreted 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 ferreted produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.