Hidden inside songbird sit birdsong and songbird, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
birdsong and songbird tie for the highest Scrabble score from songbird at 12 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in songbird: one comes from rearranging its letters, and songbird itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are birdsong and songbird, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in songbird produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bodings, 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 songbird turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boring, brings, grinds, and groins. For points, the strongest play is boding — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in songbird. If a familiar word is all you need, start with binds, bingo, birds, bonds, bring, doing, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are bigos, binds, bingo, biogs, birds, boing, bonds, bongs, brigs, bring, and dribs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in songbird produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bids, bind, bird, bond, born, dibs, and digs. For points, the strongest plays are bids, bigs, bind, bing, biog, bird, bods, bogs, bond, bong, brig, dibs, drib, gibs, and gobs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling songbird turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, big, dig, dog, god, ids, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are bid, big, bod, bog, dib, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in songbird. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, is, no, and on. 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 songbird 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.
songbird 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 one sense for songbird. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
songbird is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing songbird unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are birdsong and songbird, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from songbird 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 songbird produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.