Hidden inside harbored sit abhorred and harbored, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abhorred and harbored tie for the highest Scrabble score from harbored at 14 points. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in harbored: one comes from rearranging its letters, and harbored itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abhorred and harbored, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in harbored produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with broader. For points, the strongest play is hoarder — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling harbored turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with border and harder. For points, the strongest play is harbor — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in harbored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, barer, beard, board, bored, bread, and broad. For points, the strongest plays are abhor, bohea, obeah, and rehab — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in harbored produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, bare, bear, bore, bred, dare, and dear. For points, the strongest play is herb — 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 harbored turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bad, bah, bar, bed, bra, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are bah and hob — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in harbored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, be, do, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in harbored plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in harbored 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.
harbored 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in harbored carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
harbored is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing harbored unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abhorred and harbored, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from harbored 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 harbored produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.