neighbour needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
neighbour is the highest-scoring word from neighbour, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in neighbour — and it is neighbour itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling neighbour produces exactly one eight-letter word: neighbor. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in neighbour produces 5 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 bighorn, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling neighbour turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boring, enough, heroin, ignore, and region. For points, the strongest plays are enough, gorhen, hinger, hoeing, hunger, nigher, and rehung — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neighbour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, begun, being, bingo, boner, borne, and bring. For points, the strongest plays are bough, brugh, and burgh — 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 neighbour produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bone, bore, born, burn, gone, hero, and hire. For points, the strongest plays are bruh, buhr, and herb — 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 neighbour turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, bug, bun, ego, gun, and hen. For points, the strongest plays are hob and hub — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neighbour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh, go, he, hi, ho, and in. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, ho, oh, and uh — each worth 5 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 neighbour plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in neighbour 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.
neighbour 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 four senses for neighbour. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
neighbour is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neighbour unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is neighbour, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from neighbour 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 neighbour produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.