burgess needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burgess is the highest-scoring word from burgess, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in burgess — and it is burgess itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burgess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buses, guess, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are bergs, burgs, and grubs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in burgess produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, bugs and rubs. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including begs, bugs and berg.
Unscrambling burgess turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, bug and bus. For points, the strongest plays are beg and bug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in burgess 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.
burgess 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 two senses for burgess. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
burgess is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burgess unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is burgess, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from burgess 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 burgess produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.