Hidden inside burden sit burden, burned, and unbred, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burden, burned, and unbred tie for the highest Scrabble score from burden at 9 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in burden: two come from rearranging its letters, and burden itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with burned. For points, the strongest plays are burden, burned, and unbred — 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuder and under. For points, the strongest plays are debur 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 burden produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bend, bred, burn, nerd, nude, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are bedu, bend, bred, bund, burd, 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 burden turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bud, bun, due, end, red, and rub. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bud, deb, 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 burden. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: be, 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 burden and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
burden 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 six senses for burden. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
burden is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are burden, burned, and unbred, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from burden 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 burden produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.