neighbours needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 672 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
neighbours is the highest-scoring word from neighbours, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 672 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in neighbours — and it is neighbours itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling neighbours turns up 4 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neighbors. For points, the strongest plays are neighbors and neighbour — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neighbours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brushing and neighbor. For points, the strongest plays are bighorns, broguish, brushing, and neighbor — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in neighbours produces 56 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignores, regions, rushing, and surgeon. For points, the strongest plays are bighorn and bushing — each 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 neighbours turns up 111 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begins, beings, boners, boring, brings, buries, and busier. For points, the strongest plays are boughs, brughs, and burghs — 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 165 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neighbours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, begun, being, bingo, boner, bones, and bonus. 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 neighbours produces 184 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, bone, bore, born, bugs, buns, and burn. For points, the strongest plays are bish, bosh, bruh, buhr, bush, herb, hobs, and hubs — 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 neighbours turns up 111 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, bug, bun, bus, ego, and gun. 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 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neighbours. 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, sh, 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in neighbours plus one additional letter.
neighbours 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 neighbours. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
neighbours is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neighbours unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is neighbours, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from neighbours 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 neighbours produce 672 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 56 seven-letter words, 111 six-letter words, 165 five-letter words, 184 four-letter words, 111 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.