Hidden inside buffered sit buffered and rebuffed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buffered and rebuffed tie for the highest Scrabble score from buffered at 17 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in buffered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buffered 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 buffered and rebuffed, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling buffered turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is buffed, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buffered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breed. For points, the strongest play is effed — 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 buffered produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beef, beer, bred, deer, feed, free, and rude. For points, the strongest play is buff — 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 buffered turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee, bud, due, fed, fee, and fur. For points, the strongest play is eff — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buffered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ef and fe — each worth 5 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 buffered 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.
buffered 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.
buffered is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buffered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buffered and rebuffed, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buffered 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 buffered produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.