Unscramble RESIFT and you have 122 words, RESIFT itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 6 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: FREITS, FRITES, REFITS, RIFEST, SIFTER and STRIFE. Among the shorter answers, 19 reach 8 points, FIRST, FIRES and FRIES among them. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Counting the words from RESIFT by length: 7 with 6 letters, 26 with 5, 44 with 4, 31 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Among 26 5-letter words made with RESIFT letters, the top score is 8, reached by 19. FIRST, TRIES and TIRES are the familiar ones.
25 of 44 4-letter words from RESIFT tie at 7 points; none scores more. SITE, FIRE and REST will look familiar.
Keep every letter of RESIFT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with RE · ending in FT · all 6-letter words
What RESIFT means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RESIFT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESIFT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 122) | 94 | 120 | 85 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FREITS, FIERS, FIEST, FREIT, FRIST, REFIS, RIFTE, TERFS, TREIF, FEIS, FIER, FRIS and 14 more, 26 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: FRITES, FEST, FES, FE, RESIT, TRES, EST, TES and TE, 9 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI and ITER, 2 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of RESIFT spell the words below.