Hidden inside baler sit abler, baler, blare and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abler, baler, blare and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from baler at 7 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in baler: three come from rearranging its letters, and baler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler. For points, the strongest plays are abler, baler, blare, and blear — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in baler produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare, bear, and real. For points, the strongest plays are able, bale, bare, beal, bear, blae, and brae — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling baler turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bar, bra, ear, era, and lab. For points, the strongest plays are alb, arb, bae, bal, bar, bel, bra, lab, and reb — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
34 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in baler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in baler and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
baler 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.
baler is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing baler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abler, baler, blare, and blear, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from baler 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 baler produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.