Hidden inside bargepole sit bargepole and porbeagle, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 284 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bargepole and porbeagle tie for the highest Scrabble score from bargepole at 14 points. The top 10 of 284 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in bargepole: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bargepole itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bargepole and porbeagle, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bargepole produces exactly one eight-letter word: operable. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bargepole produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ropable, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bargepole turns up 23 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is beleap, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargepole. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, agree and bagel. For points, the strongest plays are bleep, plebe, probe, and rebop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bargepole produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare and bear. For points, the strongest plays are beep, pleb, and prob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bargepole turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ape. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargepole. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, go, and or. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in bargepole plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bargepole 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.
bargepole is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
bargepole is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bargepole unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bargepole and porbeagle, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bargepole 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 bargepole produce 284 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.