badinages 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, 316 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
badinages is the highest-scoring word from badinages, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 316 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in badinages — and it is badinages 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 badinages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are badinage, bandages, beadings, and debasing, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in badinages produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agendas. For points, the strongest plays are bandage, beading, and sandbag — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling badinages turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agenda, badges, banged, basing, begins, beings, and design. For points, the strongest plays are badges, banged, binged, and debags — 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 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in badinages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, aside, badge, bands, bangs, based, and beans. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, 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 badinages produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, aids, bade, bags, band, and bang. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bags, band, bang, bead, beds, begs, bend, bide, bids, bigs, bind, bing, dabs, debs, dibs, gabs, gibe, and gibs — 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 badinages turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, aid, and, bad, bag, and ban. 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in badinages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, be, id, in, and is. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in badinages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in badinages 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.
badinages 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 one sense for badinages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
badinages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing badinages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is badinages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from badinages 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 badinages produce 316 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.