Hidden inside tabards sit bastard, batards, and tabards, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bastard, batards, and tabards tie for the highest Scrabble score from tabards at 10 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tabards: two come from rearranging its letters, and tabards itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bastard. For points, the strongest plays are bastard, batards, and tabards — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tabards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brats. For points, the strongest plays are bards, brads, darbs, and drabs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tabards produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bars and bats. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including bads, bard and brad.
Unscrambling tabards turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, art and bad. For points, the strongest plays are bad and dab — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tabards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tabards plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tabards 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.
tabards 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 one sense for tabards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tabards is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tabards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bastard, batards, and tabards, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tabards 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 tabards produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.