Hidden inside labor sit bolar, boral, labor and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bolar, boral, labor and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from labor at 7 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in labor: three come from rearranging its letters, and labor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with labor. For points, the strongest plays are bolar, boral, labor, and lobar — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in labor produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oral. For points, the strongest plays are boar, bola, and bora — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling labor turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bar, bra, lab, and rob. For points, the strongest plays are alb, arb, bal, bar, boa, bra, bro, lab, lob, oba, orb, and rob — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in labor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 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 labor and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
labor 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 ten senses for labor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
labor is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing labor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bolar, boral, labor, and lobar, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from labor 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 labor produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.