61 words come out when you unscramble FOOTSTOOL, starting with FOOTSTOOL itself: 12 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 8: 5 of them, FOOLS, LOFTS and FOOTS included. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from FOOTSTOOL split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 6, 15 with 5, 25 with 4, 12 with 3 and 7 with 2. None has 8 or 7 letters.
There is a single one of the 6-letter words in FOOTSTOOL: LOTTOS, 6 points.
These 2 words have the length of FOOTSTOOL, with one letter different:
More 9-letter words: starting with FO · ending in OL · all 9-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; FOOLS, FOOTS, LOFTS, LOOFS and TOFTS (8 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FOOTSTOOL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOOTSTOOL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 61) | 54 | 61 | 47 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
7 of the 61 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FOOS, FOO, OOF, TOLTS, LOTO, STOT and TOLT. 7 of the 61 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OOFS, SLOOT, SOOL, LOS, OOS, OO and ST.
This word takes every letter of FOOTSTOOL plus a single extra one.