pourboire needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pourboire is the highest-scoring word from pourboire, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pourboire — and it is pourboire itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pourboire produces exactly one seven-letter word: roupier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pourboire turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poorer. For points, the strongest plays are prober and upbore — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pourboire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purer. For points, the strongest plays are probe and rebop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pourboire produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore, poor and pour. For points, the strongest plays are burp, prob, and pube — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pourboire turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, our and per. For points, the strongest plays are bop and pub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pourboire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, and up. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, up and bi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pourboire plus one additional letter.
pourboire 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 one sense for pourboire. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pourboire is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pourboire unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pourboire, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pourboire 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 pourboire produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.