Unscramble EELFARES and you have 188 words, EELFARES itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from EELFARES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 19 with 6, 51 with 5, 60 with 4, 38 with 3 and 14 with 2.
25 of 51 5-letter words from EELFARES tie at 8 points; none scores more. LASER, FALSE and LEASE will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble EELFARES, 24 score 7 points, the group's best. FREE, REAL and SALE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of EELFARES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with EE · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with FEELERS, LEAFERS and REFEELS (10 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
EELFARES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EELFARES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 188) | 146 | 186 | 140 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 40 of them: EELFARES, EELFARE, FEARES, FLASER, FARSE, FEALS, FEARE, FEERS, FEESE, SEFER, ELFS, FARS and 28 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: LEAFERS, FERALS, LEAFER, FES, EASER and FE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: ALFS and ALF.
With one more tile, the letters of EELFARES spell the words below.