labored needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
labored is the highest-scoring word from labored, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in labored — and it is labored itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling labored turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with balder and bolder. For points, the strongest plays are albedo, balder, blader, blared, bolder, bordel, and doable — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in labored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, adore, beard, blade, board, bored, and bread. For points, the strongest plays are abled, abode, adobe, ardeb, baled, barde, bared, beard, blade, board, bored, bread, broad, debar, dobla, dobra, lobed, orbed, and robed — 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 labored produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bade, bald, bare, bear, bled, and bold. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bald, bard, bead, bled, bode, bold, brad, bred, darb, dobe, and drab — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling labored turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bad, bar, bed, bra, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bod, dab, and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in labored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be, do, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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 labored 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.
labored 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 two senses for labored. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
labored is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing labored unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is labored, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from labored 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 labored produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.