bargains needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bargains is the highest-scoring word from bargains, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bargains — and it is bargains itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bargains produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bargain. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including bargain, abasing and airbags.
Unscrambling bargains turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basing, brains, and brings. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including basing, brings and airbag.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, bangs and barns. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including bangs, brags and bring.
Rearranging the letters in bargains produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, bags and bang. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including bags, bang and brag.
Unscrambling bargains turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, bag and ban. For points, the strongest plays are bag, big, gab, and gib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in bargains and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
bargains 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 four senses for bargains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
bargains is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bargains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bargains, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bargains 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 bargains produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.