Hidden inside larboards sit labradors and larboards, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
labradors and larboards tie for the highest Scrabble score from larboards at 12 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in larboards: one comes from rearranging its letters, and larboards itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are labradors and larboards, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larboards. 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.
Rearranging the letters in larboards produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is darbars, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling larboards turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aboard, boards, and labors. For points, the strongest plays are aboard, abroad, adorbs, adsorb, boards, broads, darbar, doblas, and dobras — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larboards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with board, broad, labor, loads, lords, roads, and salad. For points, the strongest plays are balds, bards, board, bolds, brads, broad, darbs, dobla, dobra, and drabs — 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 larboards produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, bald, bars, bold, bras, labs, and lads. For points, the strongest plays are bads, bald, bard, bods, bold, brad, dabs, 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 larboards turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, bad, bar, bra, lab, lad, and old. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larboards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, 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 larboards 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.
larboards 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 larboards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
larboards is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing larboards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are labradors and larboards, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from larboards 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 larboards produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.