Hidden inside refasten sit fastener, fenestra, and refasten, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 283 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fastener, fenestra, and refasten tie for the highest Scrabble score from refasten at 11 points. The top 10 of 283 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in refasten: two come from rearranging its letters, and refasten 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 fastener, fenestra, and refasten, 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 refasten produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern and nearest. For points, the strongest plays are afreets and feaster — 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 refasten turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, enters, faster, freest, neater, resent, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are afreet, afters, enserf, fasten, faster, feater, fester, freest, strafe, and terefa — 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 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refasten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, earns, eaten, enter, erase, fates, and fears. For points, the strongest plays are after, fanes, fares, farts, fates, fears, fease, feast, feats, feres, ferns, festa, fetas, fetes, frats, frees, frena, frets, rafts, reefs, safer, snarf, and trefa — 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 refasten produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are arfs, efts, fane, fans, fare, fart, fast, fate, fats, fear, feat, fees, feet, fens, fere, fern, fest, feta, fete, fets, frae, frat, free, fret, raft, reef, refs, reft, safe, serf, and tref — 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 refasten turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, efs, eft, fan, far, fas, fat, fee, fen, fer, fes, fet, and ref — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refasten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — 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 refasten 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.
refasten 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.
refasten is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refasten unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fastener, fenestra, and refasten, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refasten 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 refasten produce 283 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.