aboveboard needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aboveboard is the highest-scoring word from aboveboard, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in aboveboard — and it is aboveboard itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aboveboard produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bravado and bravoed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aboveboard turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aboard and robbed. For points, the strongest plays are adverb and braved — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aboveboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with above, adore, beard, board, booed, bored, and brave. For points, the strongest plays are above, bevor, brava, brave, and bravo — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aboveboard produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bade, bare, bear, boob, bore, and bred. For points, the strongest play is verb — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aboveboard turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bad, bar, bed, boo, bra, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are bob, dev, and ebb — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aboveboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be, do, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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.
aboveboard 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for aboveboard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
aboveboard is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aboveboard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aboveboard, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aboveboard 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 aboveboard produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.