burglars needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burglars is the highest-scoring word from burglars, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in burglars — and it is burglars itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in burglars produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with burglar. For points, the strongest plays are bulgars and burglar — 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 burglars turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bulgar, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burglars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brags, grabs, and sugar. For points, the strongest plays are blags, brags, burgs, garbs, 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 burglars produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bags, bars, brag, bras, bugs, gals, and grab. For points, the strongest plays are bags, blag, brag, bugs, burg, gabs, garb, 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 burglars turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bag, bar, bra, bug, bus, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are bag, bug, and gab — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burglars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — 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 burglars and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
burglars 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 burglars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
burglars is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burglars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is burglars, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from burglars 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 burglars produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.