Hidden inside labors sit borals and labors, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
borals and labors tie for the highest Scrabble score from labors at 8 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in labors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and labors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with labors. For points, the strongest plays are borals and labors — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in labors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with labor and solar. For points, the strongest plays are boars, bolar, bolas, boral, boras, 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 labors produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, bars, bras, labs, oral, and robs. For points, the strongest plays are albs, arbs, bals, bars, boar, boas, bola, bora, bras, bros, labs, lobs, obas, orbs, robs, slab, slob, soba, and sorb — 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 labors turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bar, bra, lab, and rob. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, arb, bal, bar, bas, boa, bos, bra, bro, lab, lob, oba, orb, rob, sab, and sob — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in labors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. 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 labors 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.
labors 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 labors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
labors is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing labors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are borals and labors, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from labors 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 labors produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.