Hidden inside buriers sit bruiser and buriers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bruiser and buriers tie for the highest Scrabble score from buriers at 9 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in buriers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buriers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bruiser and buriers, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buriers turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buries and busier. For points, the strongest plays are briers, bruise, burier, buries, busier, rubier, and rubies — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buriers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with surer. For points, the strongest plays are biers, birrs, birse, brier, bries, burrs, burse, rebus, ribes, rubes, and suber — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in buriers produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ribs, rise, rubs, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are bier, birr, bise, brie, bris, burr, burs, rebs, ribs, rube, rubs, and urbs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buriers turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, rib, rub, sir, sub, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are bes, bis, brr, bur, bus, reb, rib, rub, sib, sub, and urb — each worth 5 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 buriers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, and us. 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 buriers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
buriers 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.
buriers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buriers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bruiser and buriers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buriers 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 buriers produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.