borages needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
borages is the highest-scoring word from borages, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in borages — and it is borages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in borages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bears, brags and grabs. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including brags, grabs and barge.
Rearranging the letters in borages produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, bags and bare. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including bags, begs and brag.
Unscrambling borages turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and are. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bag, beg and bog.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in borages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be and go. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in borages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in borages 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.
borages 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 two senses for borages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
borages is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing borages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is borages, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from borages 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 borages produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.