Hidden inside fifes sit fiefs and fifes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fiefs and fifes tie for the highest Scrabble score from fifes at 11 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in fifes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fifes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fiefs and fifes, 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 fifes produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are effs, fief, and fife, 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 fifes turns up 7 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eff and iff, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fifes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, 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.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in fifes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fifes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
fifes 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 fifes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for fifes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
fifes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fifes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fiefs and fifes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fifes 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 fifes produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.