Hidden inside brassieres sit brasseries and brassieres, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brasseries and brassieres tie for the highest Scrabble score from brassieres at 12 points. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in brassieres: one comes from rearranging its letters, and brassieres itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brasseries and brassieres, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling brassieres turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brasserie and brassiere, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brassieres. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brasiers, brassier, and brassies, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in brassieres produces 19 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 bearers, berries, biasses, braises, brasier, brasses, brassie, brisses, and rebases, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling brassieres turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basses, easier, erases, rabies, raises, and series. For points, the strongest plays are barres, basser, basses, bearer, biases, birses, braise, briars, briers, brises, rabies, rebars, rebase, sabers, sabirs, and sabres — 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 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brassieres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, barer, bases, basis, bears, beers, and eases. For points, the strongest plays are abris, barer, bares, barre, baser, bases, basis, bassi, bears, beers, beses, biers, birrs, birse, bises, braes, brass, brees, briar, brier, bries, briss, isbas, rabis, rebar, ribes, saber, sabes, sabir, and sabre — 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 brassieres produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, bare, bars, base, bass, bear, and beer. For points, the strongest plays are abri, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bass, bear, beer, bees, bias, bier, birr, bise, brae, bras, bree, brie, bris, isba, rabi, rebs, ribs, sabe, sabs, and sibs — 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 brassieres turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ass, bar, bee, bra, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bee, bes, bis, bra, brr, reb, rib, sab, and sib — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brassieres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in brassieres plus one additional letter.
brassieres 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 one sense for brassieres. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
brassieres is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing brassieres unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brasseries and brassieres, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from brassieres 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 brassieres produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.