Hidden inside robes sit bores, brose, robes and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bores, brose, robes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from robes at 7 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in robes: three come from rearranging its letters, and robes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with robes and sober. For points, the strongest plays are bores, brose, robes, and sober — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in robes produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore, robe and robs. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including bore, robe and robs.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in robes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
28 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in robes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in robes 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.
robes 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 four senses for robes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
robes is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing robes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bores, brose, robes, and sober, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from robes 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 robes produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.