Hidden inside ribbon sit ribbon and robbin, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ribbon and robbin tie for the highest Scrabble score from ribbon at 10 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ribbon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ribbon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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.
Unscrambling ribbon produces exactly one five-letter word: robin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ribbon produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with born and iron. For points, the strongest plays are biro, born, brin, and brio — 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 ribbon turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, rib, and rob. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ribbon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, no, on, and or. 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 ribbon 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.
ribbon 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 ribbon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ribbon is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ribbon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ribbon and robbin, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ribbon 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 ribbon produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.