Hidden inside baryon sit barony and baryon, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barony and baryon tie for the highest Scrabble score from baryon at 11 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in baryon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and baryon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barony and baryon, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baryon. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barny and boyar, 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 baryon produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barn and born. For points, the strongest plays are bony, bray, and orby — 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 baryon turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, ban, bar, bay, boy, bra, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, boy, and yob — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baryon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, by, no, on, or, and oy. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 baryon and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
baryon 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 baryon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
baryon is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing baryon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barony and baryon, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from baryon 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 baryon produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.