Hidden inside buried sit burdie, buried, and rubied, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burdie, buried, and rubied tie for the highest Scrabble score from buried at 9 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in buried: two come from rearranging its letters, and buried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buried. For points, the strongest plays are burdie, buried, and rubied — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in buried produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bird, bred, ride, and rude. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including bird, bred and bedu.
Unscrambling buried turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid and bud. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including bed, bid and bud.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in buried plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buried 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.
buried 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for buried. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
buried is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are burdie, buried, and rubied, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buried 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 buried produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.