abridgers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 411 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abridgers is the highest-scoring word from abridgers, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 411 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in abridgers — and it is abridgers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abridgers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abridger, abridges, and brigades, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abridgers produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bridges, graders, and regards. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including bridges, abridge and badgers.
Unscrambling abridgers turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with badges, beards and breads. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including badges, bridge and badger.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abridgers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and badge. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, debag, and gibed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abridgers produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and aids. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including bade, bags and beds.
Unscrambling abridgers turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and aid. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bag and bed.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abridgers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in abridgers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abridgers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
abridgers 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 abridgers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
abridgers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abridgers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abridgers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abridgers 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 abridgers produce 411 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.