burglary needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burglary is the highest-scoring word from burglary, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in burglary — and it is burglary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling burglary produces exactly one seven-letter word: burglar. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling burglary turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is blurry, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burglary. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bulgy and rugby, 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 burglary produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brag, bury, grab, gray, and ugly. For points, the strongest play is gaby — 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 burglary turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bag, bar, bay, bra, bug, buy, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, and buy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burglary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay and by. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 burglary 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.
burglary 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 one sense for burglary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
burglary is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burglary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is burglary, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from burglary 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 burglary produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.