bordereau needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bordereau is the highest-scoring word from bordereau, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in bordereau — and it is bordereau itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bordereau produces exactly one eight-letter word: arboured. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bordereau produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with broader. For points, the strongest plays are arbored, boarder, bordure, broader, reboard, and rebored — 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 bordereau turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with border and dearer. For points, the strongest plays are barred, beader, border, burred, dauber, deburr, durbar, earbud, and rebred — 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 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bordereau. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, barer, beard, board, bored, bread, and breed. For points, the strongest plays are abode, adobe, ardeb, barde, bared, beard, board, bored, bread, brede, breed, broad, daube, debar, debur, dobra, orbed, redub, and robed — 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 bordereau produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, bare, bear, beer, bore, bred, and dare. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bard, baud, bead, bedu, bode, brad, bred, burd, darb, daub, dobe, drab, and drub — 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 bordereau turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bad, bar, bed, bee, bra, and bud. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bod, bud, dab, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bordereau. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be, do, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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 bordereau plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bordereau 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.
bordereau 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.
bordereau is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bordereau unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bordereau, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bordereau 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 bordereau produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.