Hidden inside buffering sit buffering and rebuffing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buffering and rebuffing tie for the highest Scrabble score from buffering at 18 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in buffering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buffering 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 buffering and rebuffing, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in buffering produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is buffing, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buffering turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with figure and finger. For points, the strongest plays are buffer and rebuff — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buffering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, begun, being, brief, bring, finer, and grief. For points, the strongest play is buffi — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in buffering produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with burn, fine, fire, ring, ruin, rung, and urge. For points, the strongest plays are biff and buff — 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 buffering turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, bug, bun, fun, fur, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are eff and iff — each worth 9 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 buffering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — 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 buffering 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.
buffering 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
buffering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buffering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buffering and rebuffing, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buffering 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 buffering produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.