Hidden inside barong sit barong and brogan, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barong and brogan tie for the highest Scrabble score from barong at 9 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in barong: one comes from rearranging its letters, and barong itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barong and brogan, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barong. If a familiar word is all you need, start with organ. For points, the strongest plays are bogan and goban — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in barong produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bang, barn, born, brag, grab, and rang. For points, the strongest plays are bang, bong, brag, garb, and grab — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling barong turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, bag, ban, bar, bra, nag, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are bag, bog, gab, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barong. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, go, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in barong and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
barong 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 one sense for barong. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
barong is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing barong unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barong and brogan, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from barong 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 barong produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.