Hidden inside badger sit badger, barged, and garbed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
badger, barged, and garbed tie for the highest Scrabble score from badger at 10 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in badger: two come from rearranging its letters, and badger itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are badger, barged, and garbed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in badger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with badge, beard, bread, and grade. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, and debag — 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 badger produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, bade, bare, bear, brag, bred, and dare. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bard, bead, berg, brad, brag, bred, darb, drab, garb, 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 badger turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, bad, bag, bar, bed, and beg. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bag, bed, beg, dab, deb, and gab — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in badger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 badger 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.
badger 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 four senses for badger. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
badger is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing badger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are badger, barged, and garbed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from badger 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 badger produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.