Hidden inside births sit births and briths, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
births and briths tie for the highest Scrabble score from births at 11 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in births: one comes from rearranging its letters, and births itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with births. For points, the strongest plays are births and briths — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in births. If a familiar word is all you need, start with birth and shirt. For points, the strongest plays are birth and brith — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in births produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bits, hits and ribs. For points, the strongest play is bish — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in births. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are hi and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in births plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in births 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.
births 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in births carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for births. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
births is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing births unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are births and briths, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from births 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 births produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.