Hidden inside balder sit balder, blader, and blared, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
balder, blader, and blared tie for the highest Scrabble score from balder at 9 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in balder: two come from rearranging its letters, and balder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with balder. For points, the strongest plays are balder, blader, and blared — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in balder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, beard, blade, and bread. For points, the strongest plays are abled, ardeb, baled, barde, bared, beard, blade, bread, and debar — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in balder produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bade, bald, bare, bear, bled, and bred. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bald, bard, bead, bled, brad, bred, darb, and drab — 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 balder turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bad, bar, bed, bra, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, dab, and deb — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in balder. 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 balder 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.
balder 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 balder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
balder is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing balder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are balder, blader, and blared, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from balder 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 balder produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.