refuses needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
refuses is the highest-scoring word from refuses, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in refuses — and it is refuses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling refuses turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refuse. For points, the strongest plays are fusees, fusser, and refuse — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refuses. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feres, fesse, frees, fusee, fuses, reefs, serfs, and surfs, 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 refuses produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, free, furs, sees, sues, sure, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are fees, fere, fess, feus, free, furs, fuse, fuss, reef, refs, serf, and surf — 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 refuses turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, fur, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are efs, fee, fer, fes, feu, fur, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are ef 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 refuses and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
refuses 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.
refuses is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refuses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is refuses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from refuses 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 refuses produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.