Hidden inside ibadan is one standout: indaba, a six-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
IBADAN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to INDABA (noun), a meeting of South African tribes, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
indaba is the highest-scoring word from ibadan, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling ibadan produces exactly one six-letter word: indaba. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ibadan turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and bad. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bid, dab, and dib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ibadan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ibadan plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ibadan 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is indaba, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ibadan 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 ibadan produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.