ribaldry needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ribaldry is the highest-scoring word from ribaldry, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ribaldry — and it is ribaldry itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ribaldry produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with library. For points, the strongest play is rabidly — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ribaldry turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is drably, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ribaldry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with badly, daily, dairy, and diary. For points, the strongest plays are badly and baldy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ribaldry produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bald and bird. For points, the strongest plays are ably, bray, and byrl — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ribaldry turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and bad. For points, the strongest plays are aby and bay — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ribaldry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ay, by, and id. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ribaldry and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ribaldry 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for ribaldry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
ribaldry is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ribaldry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ribaldry, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ribaldry 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 ribaldry produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.