Hidden inside aboard sit aboard and abroad, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aboard and abroad tie for the highest Scrabble score from aboard at 9 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in aboard: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aboard itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aboard. For points, the strongest plays are aboard and abroad — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with board and broad. For points, the strongest plays are board, broad, and dobra — 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 aboard produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with road. For points, the strongest plays are bard, brad, darb, and drab — 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 aboard turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bad, bar, bra, rob, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bod, and dab — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, do, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 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 aboard and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
aboard 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for aboard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
aboard is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aboard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aboard and abroad, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aboard 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 aboard produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.