Hidden inside braincase sit braincase and carabines, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 369 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
braincase and carabines tie for the highest Scrabble score from braincase at 13 points. The top 10 of 369 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in braincase: one comes from rearranging its letters, and braincase 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 braincase and carabines, 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 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in braincase. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brisance, carabine, carabins, and carbines, 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 braincase produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ascribe, carabin, carbine, and caribes, 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 braincase turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with braces, brains, cabins, and rabies. For points, the strongest plays are arabic, barcas, braces, cabers, cabins, caribe, ceibas, scarab, and scribe — 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 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in braincase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, barns, basic, beans, bears, brain, and cabin. For points, the strongest plays are abaci, acerb, bancs, barca, baric, basic, bices, brace, caber, cabin, carbs, ceiba, crabs, cribs, and rabic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in braincase produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area, bans, bare, barn, bars, and base. For points, the strongest plays are banc, bice, cabs, carb, crab, crib, and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling braincase turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ban, bar, bra, cab, and can. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in braincase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, be, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in braincase plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in braincase 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.
braincase 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 one sense for braincase. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
braincase is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing braincase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are braincase and carabines, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from braincase 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 braincase produce 369 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.