Hidden inside blinder sit blinder and brindle, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blinder and brindle tie for the highest Scrabble score from blinder at 10 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in blinder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blinder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blinder. For points, the strongest plays are blinder and brindle — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blinder turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are binder, bindle, birled and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blinder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blend, blind and bride. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including blend, blind and bride.
Rearranging the letters in blinder produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bend, bind and bird. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including bend, bind and bird.
Unscrambling blinder turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid and die. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bid, deb, and dib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blinder. 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.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in blinder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blinder and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
blinder 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for blinder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
blinder is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blinder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blinder and brindle, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blinder 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 blinder produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.