burdensome needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 631 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burdensome is the highest-scoring word from burdensome, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 631 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in burdensome — and it is burdensome itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burdensome. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is numbered, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in burdensome produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with numbers. For points, the strongest plays are bemused, embrued, and umbered — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling burdensome turns up 102 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boners, breeds and burned. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including dumber, bermed and demobs.
There are 168 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burdensome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, bends and bonds. For points, the strongest plays are demob, dumbo, dumbs, and embed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in burdensome produces 182 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, been and beer. For points, the strongest play is dumb — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling burdensome turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee and bud. For points, the strongest plays are bum and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burdensome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do and me. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, me and um.
burdensome 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for burdensome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
burdensome is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burdensome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is burdensome, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from burdensome 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 burdensome produce 631 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 102 six-letter words, 168 five-letter words, 182 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.