Hidden inside rebuff sit buffer and rebuff, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buffer and rebuff tie for the highest Scrabble score from rebuff at 14 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in rebuff: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rebuff itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buffer and rebuff, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling rebuff produces exactly one five-letter word: ruffe. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rebuff produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is buff, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rebuff turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fur and rub. For points, the strongest play is eff — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rebuff. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ef and fe — each worth 5 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 rebuff and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
rebuff 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 2-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 rebuff. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
rebuff is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rebuff unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buffer and rebuff, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rebuff 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 rebuff produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.