Hidden inside buffers sit buffers and rebuffs, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buffers and rebuffs tie for the highest Scrabble score from buffers at 15 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in buffers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buffers 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 buffers and rebuffs, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buffers turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with suffer. 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buffers. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is buffs, 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 buffers produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with furs, rubs, and sure. 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 buffers turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, fur, rub, sub, sue, and use. 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 buffers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and us. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in buffers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buffers 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.
buffers 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 nine senses for buffers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
buffers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buffers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buffers and rebuffs, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buffers 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 buffers produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.