Hidden inside fosterages sit forestages and fosterages, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 588 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forestages and fosterages tie for the highest Scrabble score from fosterages at 14 points. The top 10 of 588 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in fosterages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fosterages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are forestages and fosterages, each 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 fosterages turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are forestage, fosterage, and gorefests, 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 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fagoters, gorefest, and serfages, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fosterages produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easters, forests, forgets, greases, and storage. For points, the strongest plays are fagoter, forages, forgets, and serfage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fosterages turns up 101 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easter, erases, faster, fatsos, forest, and forget. For points, the strongest plays are fagots, forage, forgat, forges, forget, gofers, and grafts — 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 171 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, erase, fates, fatso, fears, forts, and frogs. For points, the strongest plays are fagot, forge, frags, frogs, gofer, and graft — 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 fosterages produces 162 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts, ears, ease, east, eats, and egos. For points, the strongest plays are fags, fogs, frag, and frog — 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 fosterages turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are fag and fog — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fosterages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, of, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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.
fosterages 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 two senses for fosterages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
fosterages is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fosterages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are forestages and fosterages, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fosterages 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 fosterages produce 588 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 101 six-letter words, 171 five-letter words, 162 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.