Hidden inside larboard sit labrador and larboard, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
labrador and larboard tie for the highest Scrabble score from larboard at 11 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in larboard: one comes from rearranging its letters, and larboard itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are labrador and larboard, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling larboard turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aboard. For points, the strongest plays are aboard, abroad, and darbar — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with board, broad, and labor. For points, the strongest plays are board, broad, dobla, and dobra — 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 larboard produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bald, bold, load, lord, oral, and road. For points, the strongest plays are bald, bard, bold, brad, darb, 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 larboard turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bad, bar, bra, lab, lad, old, and rob. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bod, and dab — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, do, and 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 larboard and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
larboard 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 larboard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
larboard is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing larboard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are labrador and larboard, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from larboard 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 larboard produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.