Hidden inside festoons sit eftsoons and festoons, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eftsoons and festoons tie for the highest Scrabble score from festoons at 11 points. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in festoons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and festoons 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 eftsoons and festoons, 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 festoons 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 eftsoon, festoon, and softens, 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 festoons turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stones. For points, the strongest play is soften — 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in festoons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, noses, notes, often, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are fests, fonts, foots, fosse, often, and softs — 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 festoons produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with foot, nest, nets, nose, note, ones, and onto. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fens, fess, fest, fets, foes, fons, font, foos, foot, foss, and soft — 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 festoons turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, not, one, set, son, ten, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fen, fes, fet, foe, fon, foo, oft, and oof — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in festoons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, of, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, 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.
Swap a single tile in festoons 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.
festoons 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for festoons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
festoons is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing festoons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eftsoons and festoons, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from festoons 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 festoons produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.