Hidden inside ribbons sit ribbons and robbins, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ribbons and robbins tie for the highest Scrabble score from ribbons at 11 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ribbons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ribbons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ribbons. For points, the strongest plays are ribbons and robbins — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ribbons turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ribbon. For points, the strongest plays are ribbon and robbin — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ribbons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons. For points, the strongest plays are biros, bison, brins, brios, and robin — 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 ribbons produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with born, iron, ribs, and robs. For points, the strongest plays are bibs, bobs, and sibb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ribbons turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, rib, rob, sin, sir, and son. For points, the strongest plays are bib and bob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ribbons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — 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 ribbons and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ribbons 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 four senses for ribbons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ribbons is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ribbons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ribbons and robbins, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ribbons 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 ribbons produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.