Hidden inside brigade sit abridge and brigade, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abridge and brigade tie for the highest Scrabble score from brigade at 11 points. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in brigade: one comes from rearranging its letters, and brigade itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abridge and brigade, 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 brigade turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bridge. For points, the strongest plays are badger, barged, begird, bridge, and garbed — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brigade. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, badge, beard, bread, bride, and grade. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, debag, and gibed — 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 brigade produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, bade, bare, bear, bird, brag, and bred. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bard, bead, berg, bide, bird, brad, brag, bred, brig, darb, drab, drib, garb, gibe, and grab — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling brigade turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, air, are, bad, bag, and bar. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bag, bed, beg, bid, big, dab, deb, dib, gab, and gib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brigade. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be, and id. 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.
Swap a single tile in brigade and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
brigade 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 two senses for brigade. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
brigade is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing brigade unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abridge and brigade, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from brigade 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 brigade produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.