Hidden inside birdie sit birdie and bridie, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
birdie and bridie tie for the highest Scrabble score from birdie at 9 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in birdie: one comes from rearranging its letters, and birdie 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 birdie and bridie, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in birdie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bride. 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 birdie produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bird, bred, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are bide, bidi, 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 birdie turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, die, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in birdie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and id. 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 birdie 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.
birdie 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 three senses for birdie. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
birdie is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing birdie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are birdie and bridie, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from birdie 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 birdie produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.