Hidden inside builders sit builders and rebuilds, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 253 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
builders and rebuilds tie for the highest Scrabble score from builders at 11 points. The top 10 of 253 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in builders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and builders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rebuilds. For points, the strongest plays are builders and rebuilds — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in builders produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rebuild. For points, the strongest plays are bridles, bruised, builder, burdies, 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 builders turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brides, builds, buried, buries, and busier. For points, the strongest plays are biders, bields, birled, brides, bridle, builds, burdie, buried, burled, busied, debris, deburs, rebids, redubs, 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 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in builders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with birds, bluer, blues, bride, build, delis, and dries. For points, the strongest plays are bider, bides, bield, birds, blued, bride, build, burds, bused, debur, dribs, drubs, 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 builders produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bids, bird, bled, blue, bred, and buds. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bedu, bide, bids, bird, bled, bred, buds, burd, debs, dibs, drib, drub, and dubs — 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 builders turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, bud, bus, die, due, and ids. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in builders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, id, is, and us. 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 builders 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.
builders 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 builders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
builders is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing builders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are builders and rebuilds, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from builders 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 builders produce 253 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.