Hidden inside buried sit burdie, buried, and rubied, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burdie, buried, and rubied tie for the highest Scrabble score from buried at 9 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in buried: two come from rearranging its letters, and buried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buried. For points, the strongest plays are burdie, buried, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bride. For points, the strongest plays are bider, bride, debur, 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 buried produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bird, bred, ride, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are bedu, bide, bird, bred, burd, drib, and drub — 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 buried turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, bud, die, due, red, and rib. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and id. 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 buried and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
buried 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for buried. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
buried is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are burdie, buried, and rubied, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buried 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 buried produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.