Hidden inside builder sit builder and rebuild, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
builder and rebuild tie for the highest Scrabble score from builder at 10 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in builder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and builder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rebuild. For points, the strongest plays are builder and rebuild — 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 builder turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buried. For points, the strongest plays are birled, bridle, burdie, buried, burled, and rubied — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in builder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bluer, bride, build, lured, and ruled. For points, the strongest plays are bider, bield, blued, bride, build, debur, lubed, rebid, and redub — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in builder produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bird, bled, blue, bred, deli, lied, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are bedu, bide, bird, bled, bred, burd, drib, and drub — 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 builder turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, bud, die, due, led, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bid, bud, deb, dib, and dub — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in builder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and id. For points, the strongest plays are 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 builder 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.
builder 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 3-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 builder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
builder is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing builder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are builder and rebuild, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from builder 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 builder produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.