bartender needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bartender is the highest-scoring word from bartender, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in bartender — and it is bartender itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bartender. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bantered and bartered, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bartender produces 11 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 bartend, berated, brander and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bartender turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beaten, dearer and debate. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including debate, bander and barned.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bartender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barer, beard and brand. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including beard, brand and bread.
Rearranging the letters in bartender produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, band and bare. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including bade, band and bend.
Unscrambling bartender turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and are. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, dab, and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bartender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in bartender plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bartender 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.
bartender 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 2-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 bartender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
bartender is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bartender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bartender, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bartender 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 bartender produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.