formidable needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 697 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
formidable is the highest-scoring word from formidable, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 697 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in formidable — and it is formidable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling formidable produces exactly one nine-letter word: bromeliad. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formidable. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is biformed, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in formidable produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forbade. For points, the strongest play is fibroma — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling formidable turns up 124 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, bailed, balder, blamed, boiled, bolder, and failed. For points, the strongest plays are biform, ferbam, fimble, and flambe — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 156 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formidable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, adore, aimed, aired, armed, beard, and blade. For points, the strongest plays are famed and fremd — 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 formidable produces 219 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bade, bail, bald, bare, beam, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are barf, fame, farm, film, firm, flab, flam, foam, forb, form, from, and milf — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling formidable turns up 121 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, air, are, arm, bad, and bam. For points, the strongest plays are fab, fam, fem, fib, and fob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formidable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, be, do, id, if, and me. 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.
formidable 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for formidable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
formidable is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing formidable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is formidable, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from formidable 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 formidable produce 697 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 124 six-letter words, 156 five-letter words, 219 four-letter words, 121 three-letter words and 37 two-letter words.