Hidden inside banderoles sit banderoles, bandoleers, and endorsable, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 873 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
banderoles, bandoleers, and endorsable tie for the highest Scrabble score from banderoles at 13 points. The top 10 of 873 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in banderoles: two come from rearranging its letters, and banderoles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are banderoles, bandoleers, and endorsable, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling banderoles turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are banderole, banderols, bandoleer, and leeboards, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banderoles. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are albedoes, banderol, bandores and 8 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in banderoles produces 68 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blonder, blondes and dealers. For points, 29 words tie at 10 points, including blonder, blondes and albedos.
Unscrambling banderoles turns up 167 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, balder and beards. For points, 45 words tie at 9 points, including balder, beards and blades.
There are 238 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banderoles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, adore and alone. For points, 43 words tie at 8 points, including bands, based and beard.
Rearranging the letters in banderoles produces 233 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, also and bade. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including bade, bald and band.
Unscrambling banderoles turns up 110 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bod.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banderoles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
banderoles 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.
banderoles is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing banderoles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are banderoles, bandoleers, and endorsable, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from banderoles 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 banderoles produce 873 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 68 seven-letter words, 167 six-letter words, 238 five-letter words, 233 four-letter words, 110 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.