Hidden inside binder sit binder, brined, inbred and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
binder, brined, inbred and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from binder at 9 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in binder: three come from rearranging its letters, and binder 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 binder, brined, inbred, and rebind, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in binder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bride and diner. For points, the strongest plays are bider, bride, and rebid — 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 binder produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bend, bind, bird, bred, dine, nerd, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are bend, bide, bind, bird, bred, and drib — 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 binder turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, die, end, red, rib, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bid, deb, and dib — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in binder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — 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 binder 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.
binder 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 binder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
binder is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing binder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are binder, brined, inbred, and rebind, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from binder 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 binder produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.