laborious needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
laborious is the highest-scoring word from laborious, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in laborious — and it is laborious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in laborious produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bailors, burials, labours, railbus, robalos, and suboral, each 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 laborious turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with labors and sailor. For points, the strongest plays are airbus, bailor, borals, brails, brasil, broils, burial, bursal, isobar, labors, labour, libras, obolus, robalo, and urbias — 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in laborious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, boils, labor, liars, and solar. For points, the strongest plays are aboil, abris, bails, basil, birls, biros, blurs, boars, boils, bolar, bolas, bolos, bolus, boors, boral, boras, brail, brios, broil, broos, buras, burls, bursa, labor, libra, lobar, lobos, obias, oboli, obols, rabis, rubli, sabir, slurb, and urbia — 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 laborious produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, bail, bars, boil, boos, and bras. For points, the strongest plays are abri, albs, arbs, bail, bals, bars, bias, bios, birl, biro, blur, boar, boas, boil, bola, bolo, boor, boos, bora, bras, brio, bris, broo, bros, bura, burl, burs, isba, labs, libs, lobo, lobs, obas, obia, obis, obol, orbs, rabi, ribs, robs, rubs, slab, slob, slub, soba, sorb, suba, and urbs — 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 laborious turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, bar, boo, bra, bus, lab, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, arb, bal, bar, bas, bio, bis, boa, boo, bos, bra, bro, bur, bus, lab, lib, lob, oba, obi, orb, rib, rob, rub, sab, sib, sob, sub, and urb — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in laborious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in laborious plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in laborious and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
laborious 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 3-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 laborious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
laborious is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing laborious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is laborious, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from laborious 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 laborious produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.