Hidden inside infielders sit friendlies and infielders, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 455 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
friendlies and infielders tie for the highest Scrabble score from infielders at 14 points. The top 10 of 455 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in infielders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and infielders 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 friendlies and infielders, 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 infielders turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is infielder, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infielders. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defilers, definers, deifiers, edifiers, fielders, fireside, flinders, infidels, and infields, 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 infielders produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defines, friends, and reliefs. For points, the strongest plays are defiers, defiler, defiles, definer, defines, deifier, deifies, edifier, edifies, fenders, fielder, finders, flensed, flinder, friends, infeeds, infidel, infield, redfins, refiled, refinds, refined, reified, and serifed — 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 infielders turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with define, denies, desire, diners, fields, friend, and inside. For points, the strongest plays are defers, defier, defies, defile, define, felids, fender, fields, fiends, finder, friend, infeed, redfin, refind, rifled, and selfed — 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 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infielders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, delis, diner, dines, dries, feeds, and feels. For points, the strongest plays are defer, defis, delfs, feeds, felid, fends, field, fiend, filed, finds, fined, fired, flied, freed, fried, 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 infielders produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli, dies, dine, else, ends, and feed. For points, the strongest plays are defi, delf, difs, feds, feed, fend, fids, find, and fled — 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 infielders turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, elf, end, fed, fee, ids, and led. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infielders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, in, 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in infielders plus one additional letter.
infielders 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for infielders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
infielders is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infielders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are friendlies and infielders, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from infielders 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 infielders produce 455 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.