pourboires needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 304 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pourboires is the highest-scoring word from pourboires, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 304 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pourboires — and it is pourboires itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pourboires produces exactly one nine-letter word: pourboire. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pourboires produces exactly one eight-letter word: superior. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pourboires produces 12 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 probers, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pourboires turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buries, busier, poorer, and sourer. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including prober, probes and rebops.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pourboires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pours, purer and purse. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including burps, probe and probs.
Rearranging the letters in pourboires produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boos, bore and oops. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including bops, burp and prob.
Unscrambling pourboires turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, bus and our. For points, the strongest plays are bop and pub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pourboires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is and or. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, up and bi.
pourboires 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 pourboires. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pourboires is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pourboires unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pourboires, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pourboires 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 pourboires produce 304 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.