bartenders needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 652 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bartenders is the highest-scoring word from bartenders, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 652 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in bartenders — and it is bartenders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bartenders turns up 4 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bartender. For points, the strongest plays are bartender and redbreast — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bartenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrested. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including absented, bantered and bartends.
Rearranging the letters in bartenders produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, debates and eastern. For points, 17 words tie at 10 points, including debates, banders and bartend.
Unscrambling bartenders turns up 140 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, barest and beards. For points, 22 words tie at 9 points, including beards, brands and breads.
There are 171 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bartenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bands, barer and barns. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including bands, based and beard.
Rearranging the letters in bartenders produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and bade. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including bade, band and beds.
Unscrambling bartenders turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, dab, and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bartenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
bartenders 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 bartenders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
bartenders is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bartenders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bartenders, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bartenders 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 bartenders produce 652 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 140 six-letter words, 171 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.