bodega needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bodega is the highest-scoring word from bodega, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in bodega — and it is bodega itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bodega. If a familiar word is all you need, start with badge. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, and debag — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bodega produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged and bade. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including bade, abed and bead.
Unscrambling bodega turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and bad. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bag and bed.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bodega. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be, do, and go. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bodega plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bodega 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.
bodega 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 2-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 bodega. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bodega is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bodega unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bodega, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bodega 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 bodega produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.