Hidden inside abridged sit abridged and brigaded, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abridged and brigaded tie for the highest Scrabble score from abridged at 13 points. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in abridged: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abridged itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abridged and brigaded, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abridged produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bridged, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abridged turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bridge and graded. For points, the strongest play is badged — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abridged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, badge, beard, bread, bride, dared, and dried. For points, the strongest plays are badge, bedad, begad, bided, debag, and gibed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abridged produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, bade, bare, bear, bird, brag, and bred. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bard, bead, berg, bide, bird, brad, brag, bred, brig, darb, drab, drib, garb, gibe, and grab — 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 abridged turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, age, aid, air, are, bad, and bag. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bag, bed, beg, bid, big, dab, deb, dib, gab, and gib — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abridged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be, and id. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — 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 abridged and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
abridged 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for abridged. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
abridged is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abridged unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abridged and brigaded, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abridged 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 abridged produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.