Hidden inside burglaries sit burglaries and burglarise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 600 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burglaries and burglarise tie for the highest Scrabble score from burglaries at 13 points. The top 10 of 600 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in burglaries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and burglaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are burglaries and burglarise, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling burglaries produces exactly one nine-letter word: reburials. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burglaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with burglars. For points, the strongest plays are burglars and garblers — 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 burglaries produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barrels, burgers, burglar, and regular. For points, the strongest plays are belugas, blagues, buglers, bulgars, bulgers, bulgier, burgers, burglar, burgles, busgirl, garbler, garbles, gerbils, and rugbies — 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 burglaries turns up 107 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argues, bagels, barrel, burger, buries, busier, and larger. For points, the strongest plays are bagels, barges, belgas, beluga, bilges, blague, bugler, bugles, bulgar, bulger, bulges, burger, burgle, gabies, gables, garble, gerbil, and gibers — 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 176 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burglaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, abuse, aisle, argue, bagel, bails, and barer. For points, the strongest plays are bagel, barge, belga, bergs, bilge, blags, brags, brigs, bugle, bulge, burgs, gable, garbs, giber, gibes, gleba, grabs, 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 burglaries produces 164 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ages, airs, bags, bail, bare, and bars. For points, the strongest plays are bags, begs, berg, bigs, blag, brag, brig, bugs, burg, gabs, garb, gibe, gibs, glib, grab, 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 burglaries turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, bag, bar, beg, and big. For points, the strongest plays are bag, beg, big, bug, gab, and gib — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burglaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in burglaries plus one additional letter.
burglaries 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 burglaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
burglaries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burglaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are burglaries and burglarise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from burglaries 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 burglaries produce 600 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 107 six-letter words, 176 five-letter words, 164 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.