Hidden inside forbear sit forbare and forbear, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 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.
forbare and forbear tie for the highest Scrabble score from forbear at 12 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 forbear: one comes from rearranging its letters, and forbear 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 forbare and forbear, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forbear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barer. For points, the strongest plays are afore, farer, farro, and frore — 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 forbear produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear, bore, fear, rare, and robe. For points, the strongest plays are barf and forb — 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 forbear turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bar, bra, ear, era, far, and for. For points, the strongest plays are fab and fob — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forbear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, of, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 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 forbear 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.
forbear 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for forbear. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
forbear is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing forbear unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are forbare and forbear, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from forbear 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 forbear produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.