Hidden inside barrie sit barer, barre, briar and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barer, barre, briar and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from barrie at 7 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in barrie produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear, and rare. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including bare, bear and abri.
Unscrambling barrie turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and bar. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bra and rib.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barrie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
11 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in barrie plus one additional letter.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barer, barre, briar, brier, and rebar, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from barrie 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 barrie produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.