Hidden inside breakage sit brakeage and breakage, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brakeage and breakage tie for the highest Scrabble score from breakage at 15 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in breakage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and breakage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brakeage and breakage, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling breakage turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beaker and berake, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in breakage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree and break. For points, the strongest plays are baker, brake, break, kabar, and kebar — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in breakage produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bake, bare, bark, bear, beer, and brag. For points, the strongest plays are bake, bark, beak, berk, kbar, and kerb — 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 breakage turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, bag, bar, bee, beg, and bra. For points, the strongest play is kab — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in breakage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 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 breakage and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
breakage 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 three senses for breakage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
breakage is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing breakage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brakeage and breakage, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from breakage 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 breakage produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.