Hidden inside bargepoles sit bargepoles and porbeagles, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 704 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bargepoles and porbeagles tie for the highest Scrabble score from bargepoles at 15 points. The top 10 of 704 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in bargepoles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bargepoles 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 bargepoles and porbeagles, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bargepoles turns up 2 nine-letter words. 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.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargepoles. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are operable and poseable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bargepoles produces 35 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beleaps, posable, ropable, and saprobe, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bargepoles turns up 108 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, asleep and bagels. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including beleap, bleeps and plebes.
There are 205 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargepoles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, pages and peels. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including plebe, plebs and probe.
Rearranging the letters in bargepoles produces 208 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ages and also. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including baps, beep and bops.
Unscrambling bargepoles turns up 112 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargepoles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be and go. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
bargepoles 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.
bargepoles is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bargepoles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bargepoles and porbeagles, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bargepoles 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 bargepoles produce 704 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 108 six-letter words, 205 five-letter words, 208 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.