Hidden inside boardings sit adsorbing, boardings, and signboard, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 529 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adsorbing, boardings, and signboard tie for the highest Scrabble score from boardings at 13 points. The top 10 of 529 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in boardings: two come from rearranging its letters, and boardings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adsorbing, boardings, and signboard, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boardings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boarding. For points, the strongest plays are birdsong, boarding, brigands, and songbird — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boardings produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adoring and dragons. For points, the strongest plays are aboding, bandogs, barding, bodings, and brigand — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boardings turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basing, boards, boring, brains, brands, brings, and daring. For points, the strongest plays are bandog and boding — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boardings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bands, bangs, barns, binds, bingo, birds, and board. For points, the strongest plays are bands, bangs, bards, bigos, binds, bingo, biogs, birds, board, bogan, boing, bonds, bongs, brads, brags, braid, brand, brigs, bring, broad, darbs, dobra, drabs, dribs, garbs, goban, grabs, and rabid — 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 boardings produces 164 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, bags, band, bang, bans, and barn. For points, the strongest plays are bads, bags, band, bang, bard, bids, bigs, bind, bing, biog, bird, bods, bogs, bond, bong, brad, brag, brig, dabs, darb, dibs, drab, drib, gabs, garb, gibs, gobs, and grab — 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 boardings turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago, aid, air, and, bad, and bag. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bag, bid, big, bod, bog, dab, dib, gab, gib, and gob — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boardings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in boardings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boardings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
boardings 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 two senses for boardings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
boardings is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boardings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adsorbing, boardings, and signboard, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boardings 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 boardings produce 529 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 164 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.