blindfolds needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blindfolds is the highest-scoring word from blindfolds, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in blindfolds — and it is blindfolds itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blindfolds produces exactly one nine-letter word: blindfold. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blindfolds produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bifolds, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blindfolds turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bifold, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blindfolds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bills, binds and blind. For points, the strongest plays are fidos, finds, folds, and fonds — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blindfolds produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bids, bill and bind. For points, the strongest plays are fibs and fobs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blindfolds turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, did and ids. For points, the strongest plays are fib and fob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blindfolds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and if. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
blindfolds 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 4-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 blindfolds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
blindfolds is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blindfolds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blindfolds, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blindfolds 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 blindfolds produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.