Hidden inside binary sit binary and brainy, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
binary and brainy tie for the highest Scrabble score from binary at 11 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in binary: one comes from rearranging its letters, and binary 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 binary and brainy, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in binary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brain. For points, the strongest plays are barny and briny — 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 binary produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barn and rain. For points, the strongest plays are bray and inby — 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 binary turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, any, ban, bar, bay, bra, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are aby and bay — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in binary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, by, and in. 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 binary 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.
binary 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 binary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
binary is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing binary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are binary and brainy, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from binary 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 binary produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.