Hidden inside bastard sit bastard, batards, and tabards, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bastard, batards, and tabards tie for the highest Scrabble score from bastard at 10 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in bastard: two come from rearranging its letters, and bastard itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bastard. For points, the strongest plays are bastard, batards, and tabards — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bastard turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are batard and tabard, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brats. For points, the strongest plays are bards, brads, darbs, and drabs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bastard produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bars, bats, bras, brat, data, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are bads, bard, brad, dabs, darb, and drab — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bastard turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, art, bad, bar, bat, bra, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are bad and dab — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — 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 bastard and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
bastard 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 four senses for bastard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bastard is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bastard, batards, and tabards, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bastard 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 bastard produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.