Hidden inside burdies sit bruised and burdies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bruised and burdies tie for the highest Scrabble score from burdies at 10 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in burdies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and burdies 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 bruised and burdies, 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 burdies turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brides, buried, buries, and busier. For points, the strongest plays are biders, brides, burdie, buried, 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burdies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with birds, bride, dries, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are bider, bides, birds, bride, burds, bused, debur, dribs, drubs, 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 burdies produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bids, bird, bred, buds, dibs, and dies. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bedu, bide, bids, bird, 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 burdies turns up 36 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burdies. 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 burdies 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.
burdies 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.
burdies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burdies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bruised and burdies, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from burdies 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 burdies produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.