Hidden inside borers sit borers and resorb, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
borers and resorb tie for the highest Scrabble score from borers at 8 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in borers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and borers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are borers and resorb, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in borers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with robes, sober, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are borer, bores, brose, robes, and sober — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in borers produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore, robe, robs, rose, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are bore, bros, obes, orbs, rebs, robe, robs, and sorb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling borers turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rob. For points, the strongest plays are bes, bos, bro, brr, obe, orb, reb, rob, and sob — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in borers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in borers 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.
borers 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 1-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 borers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
borers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing borers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are borers and resorb, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from borers 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 borers produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.