binaries needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
binaries is the highest-scoring word from binaries, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in binaries — and it is binaries itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling binaries turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brains, rabies, and raisin. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including brains, rabies and bairns.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in binaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barns, beans and bears. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including barns, beans and bears.
Rearranging the letters in binaries produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, bans and bare. For points, 36 words tie at 6 points, including bans, bare and barn.
Unscrambling binaries turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ban. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bar and bra.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in binaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in binaries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in binaries and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
binaries 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 four senses for binaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
binaries is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing binaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is binaries, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from binaries 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 binaries produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.