Hidden inside barrettes sit barrettes, batterers, and berrettas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 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.
barrettes, batterers, and berrettas tie for the highest Scrabble score from barrettes at 11 points. The top 10 of 284 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in barrettes: two come from rearranging its letters, and barrettes 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 barrettes, batterers, and berrettas, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barrettes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abetters, barrette, batterer, berettas, berretta, and rebaters, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in barrettes produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starter. For points, the strongest plays are abetter, barrets, barters, batters, bearers, beaters, berates, beretta, betters, rebater, and rebates — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling barrettes turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, barest, better, breast, easter, estate, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are barest, barres, barret, barter, baster, batter, bearer, beater, berate, berets, bettas, better, breast, rebars, rebase, rebate, and tabers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barrettes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barer, bears, beast, beats, beers, brats, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are abets, barer, bares, barre, baser, baste, bates, batts, bears, beast, beats, beers, beets, beret, beset, betas, betta, braes, brats, brees, rebar, saber, sabre, taber, and tabes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in barrettes produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bare, bars, base, bats, bear, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, batt, bear, beat, beer, bees, beet, best, beta, bets, brae, bras, brat, bree, rebs, sabe, stab, and tabs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling barrettes turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bee, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bee, bes, bet, bra, brr, reb, sab, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barrettes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 barrettes 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.
barrettes 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 barrettes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
barrettes is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing barrettes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barrettes, batterers, and berrettas, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from barrettes 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 barrettes produce 284 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.