Hidden inside breakages sit brakeages and breakages, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brakeages and breakages tie for the highest Scrabble score from breakages at 16 points. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in breakages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and breakages 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 brakeages and breakages, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in breakages. 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.
Rearranging the letters in breakages produces 5 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 arabesk, beakers, and berakes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling breakages turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, brakes, breaks, and grease. For points, the strongest plays are bakers, beaker, berake, brakes, breaks, breeks, kabars, and kebars — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in breakages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, areas, bakes, barks, bears, beers, and brags. For points, the strongest plays are baker, bakes, barks, beaks, berks, brake, break, kabar, kbars, kebar, and kerbs — 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 breakages produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, area, bags, bake, bare, bark, and bars. For points, the strongest plays are bake, bark, bask, beak, berk, kabs, 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 breakages turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ask, bag, bar, bee, and beg. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in breakages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and 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 breakages 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.
breakages 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 breakages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
breakages is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing breakages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brakeages and breakages, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from breakages 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 breakages produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.