Hidden inside rebar sit barer, barre, and rebar, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barer, barre, and rebar tie for the highest Scrabble score from rebar at 7 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in rebar: two come from rearranging its letters, and rebar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barer. For points, the strongest plays are barer, barre, and rebar — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rebar produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are bare, bear, and brae — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rebar turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bar, bra, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are arb, bae, bar, bra, brr, and reb — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rebar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 rebar and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
rebar 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
rebar is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rebar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barer, barre, and rebar, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rebar 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 rebar produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.