burgesses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burgesses is the highest-scoring word from burgesses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in burgesses — and it is burgesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burgesses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is subseres, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in burgesses produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guesses. For points, the strongest plays are burgees and burgess — 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 burgesses turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are burgee and grebes, 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burgesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, buses, guess, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are bergs, burgs, grebe, and grubs — 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 burgesses produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer, bees, begs, bugs, rubs, rugs, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are begs, berg, bugs, burg, and grub — 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 burgesses turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, beg, bug, bus, gee, rub, and rug. For points, the strongest plays are beg and bug — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burgesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and us. For points, the strongest play is 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 burgesses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
burgesses 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 two senses for burgesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
burgesses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burgesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is burgesses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from burgesses 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 burgesses produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.