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Unscramble FRETSAW: 176 words from the letters F R E T S A W

FRETSAW is an anagram of WAFTERS. The letters make 176 words in total, 119 of them common.

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7-letter words using every letter (2)

Shorter words from FRETSAW

6-letter words (9)

5-letter words (40)

  • after8 points
  • safer8 points
  • waste8 points
  • water8 points
  • wears8 points
  • rates5 points
  • fears8 points
  • straw8 points
  • swear8 points
  • sweat8 points
  • stare5 points
  • tears5 points
  • wafer11 points
  • wafts11 points
  • fares8 points
  • fates8 points
  • feast8 points
  • feats8 points
  • frets8 points
  • rafts8 points
  • strew8 points
  • warts8 points
  • wrest8 points
  • farts8 points
  • frats8 points
  • wares8 points
  • wefts11 points
  • aster5 points
  • tares5 points
  • trews8 points
  • sawer8 points
  • swart8 points
  • swarf11 points
  • fetas8 points
  • resaw8 points
  • sewar8 points
  • sware8 points
  • tawer8 points
  • tawse8 points
  • twaes8 points

4-letter words (67)

  • fast7 points
  • fate7 points
  • fear7 points
  • safe7 points
  • wear7 points
  • west7 points
  • east4 points
  • eats4 points
  • rate4 points
  • rest4 points
  • fare7 points
  • feat7 points
  • wars7 points
  • wets7 points
  • arse4 points
  • arts4 points
  • ears4 points
  • rats4 points
  • seat4 points
  • star4 points
  • tear4 points
  • waft10 points
  • awes7 points
  • fats7 points
  • fret7 points
  • raft7 points
  • stew7 points
  • swat7 points
  • wart7 points
  • ares4 points
  • eras4 points
  • sear4 points
  • tars4 points
  • teas4 points
  • fart7 points
  • frat7 points
  • refs7 points
  • ware7 points
  • weft10 points
  • feta7 points
  • serf7 points
  • sate4 points
  • tare4 points
  • twas7 points
  • wast7 points
  • erst4 points
  • etas4 points
  • efts7 points
  • frae7 points
  • reft7 points
  • taws7 points
  • tref7 points
  • wert7 points
  • rets4 points
  • seta4 points
  • arfs7 points
  • fets7 points
  • raws7 points
  • staw7 points
  • tews7 points
  • twae7 points
  • waes7 points
  • wats7 points
  • ates4 points
  • rase4 points
  • sera4 points
  • tsar4 points

3-letter words (45)

  • few9 points
  • far6 points
  • raw6 points
  • saw6 points
  • war6 points
  • was6 points
  • are3 points
  • art3 points
  • ate3 points
  • eat3 points
  • sat3 points
  • set3 points
  • tea3 points
  • fat6 points
  • wet6 points
  • ear3 points
  • era3 points
  • rat3 points
  • sea3 points
  • awe6 points
  • sew6 points
  • tar3 points
  • fer6 points
  • ref6 points
  • aft6 points
  • eta3 points
  • eft6 points
  • taw6 points
  • wat6 points
  • arf6 points
  • efs6 points
  • fas6 points
  • fet6 points
  • tew6 points
  • twa6 points
  • wae6 points
  • ars3 points
  • ers3 points
  • ras3 points
  • res3 points
  • ret3 points
  • sae3 points
  • ser3 points
  • tae3 points
  • tas3 points

2-letter words (13)

  • we5 points
  • as2 points
  • at2 points
  • re2 points
  • es2 points
  • fa5 points
  • er2 points
  • ta2 points
  • et2 points
  • aw5 points
  • ef5 points
  • ae2 points
  • ar2 points

Quick facts

  • Total words: 176
  • By usage: 87 very common, 32 common, 57 rare

Highest scoring (classic tiles)

  1. fretsaw 13
  2. wafters 13
  3. wafers 12
  4. wafter 12
  5. swarf 11
  6. wafer 11
  7. wafts 11
  8. wefts 11
  9. waft 10
  10. weft 10

Most common

  1. faster
  2. few
  3. after
  4. safer
  5. waste
  6. water
  7. wears
  8. fast
  9. fate
  10. fear

Definitions

fretsaw (noun)
Fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines.

From the six or seven tiles of FRETSAW you can form 176 words. This page is the complete answer, computed against our full dictionary rather than a hand-picked selection: every exact anagram, every shorter word, and the score for each. Words such as FASTER and FEW are the familiar ones; further down are rarer entries that are still valid in most games. Definitions for the most useful words follow the list.

How to use this page

Start at the top for the longest and highest-scoring words, work down for shorter plays, and use the search box to test variations with a blank or a different letter.

Tips

If you already know a few letters of the answer and their positions, the word finder is faster than reading this list. Enter a pattern with question marks for the unknown letters and only the fitting words appear. For a daily five-letter puzzle the five-letter finder does the same thing with cues for known, misplaced and excluded letters. Both tools share the dictionary used on this page, so the answers always agree with the lists you find here, whichever route you take.

Questions

How many words can you make from FRETSAW?

176 words, using our dictionary. 1 of them use every letter and the rest are shorter words formed from some of the tiles. Every one of them is listed on this page.

What is the highest-scoring word from the letters of FRETSAW?

FRETSAW, at 13 points with classic tile values. That ignores board multipliers, so check where each candidate would land before choosing.