Hidden inside failed sit afield and failed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
afield and failed tie for the highest Scrabble score from failed at 10 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in failed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and failed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with failed. For points, the strongest plays are afield and failed — 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in failed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with field, filed, and ideal. For points, the strongest plays are felid, field, filed, and flied — 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 failed produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaf, deal, deli, dial, fail, file, and fled. For points, the strongest plays are deaf, defi, delf, fade, 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 failed turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, die, elf, fed, lad, led, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fad, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in failed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, id, and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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.
Swap a single tile in failed and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
failed 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.
failed is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing failed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are afield and failed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from failed 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 failed produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.