Hidden inside wardrobes sit drawbores and wardrobes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 412 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drawbores and wardrobes tie for the highest Scrabble score from wardrobes at 15 points. The top 10 of 412 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in wardrobes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wardrobes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wardrobes. For points, the strongest plays are drawbores and wardrobes — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wardrobes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wardrobe. For points, the strongest plays are drawbore, sowbread, and wardrobe — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wardrobes produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with borders, broader, drawers, and rewards. For points, the strongest play is browsed — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wardrobes turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, beards and boards. For points, the strongest plays are bowsed and browed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wardrobes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, barer and based. For points, the strongest plays are bawds and bowed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wardrobes produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, bare and bars. For points, the strongest play is bawd — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wardrobes turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and bad. For points, the strongest plays are bow, wab, and web — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wardrobes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and aw. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ew and ow.
Swap a single tile in wardrobes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
wardrobes 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 three senses for wardrobes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
wardrobes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wardrobes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drawbores and wardrobes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wardrobes 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 wardrobes produce 412 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.