Hidden inside barrette sit barrette, batterer, and berretta, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barrette, batterer, and berretta tie for the highest Scrabble score from barrette at 10 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in barrette: two come from rearranging its letters, and barrette itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barrette, batterer, and berretta, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in barrette produces 5 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 abetter, beretta, and rebater, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling barrette turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with better. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including better, barret and barter.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barrette. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barer and treat. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including barer, barre and beret.
Rearranging the letters in barrette produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear and beat. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including bare, bear and beat.
Unscrambling barrette turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bee.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barrette. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in barrette plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in barrette 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.
barrette 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 1-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 barrette. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
barrette is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing barrette unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barrette, batterer, and berretta, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from barrette 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 barrette produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.