Hidden inside blunders sit blunders and bundlers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blunders and bundlers tie for the highest Scrabble score from blunders at 11 points. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in blunders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blunders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blunders and bundlers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in blunders produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blunder, bundler, bundles, and burdens, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling blunders turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blends, burned, and nursed. For points, the strongest plays are blends, bundle, burden, burled, burned, deburs, redubs, sunbed, and unbred — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blunders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bends, blend, bluer, blues, burns, lends, and lured. For points, the strongest plays are bends, blend, blued, bunds, burds, bused, debur, drubs, lubed, and redub — 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 blunders produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bend, bled, blue, bred, buds, and buns. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bedu, bend, bled, bred, buds, bund, burd, debs, drub, and dubs — 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 blunders turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bud, bun, bus, due, end, and led. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bud, deb, and dub — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blunders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and us. For points, the strongest play is be — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in blunders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blunders and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
blunders 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 four senses for blunders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
blunders is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blunders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blunders and bundlers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blunders 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 blunders produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.