Hidden inside babirusas sit babirusas and babirussa, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
babirusas and babirussa tie for the highest Scrabble score from babirusas at 13 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in babirusas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and babirusas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are babirusas and babirussa, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling babirusas produces exactly one eight-letter word: babirusa. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in babirusas produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are babassu and busbars, each 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 babirusas turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rabbis. For points, the strongest plays are busbar and rabbis — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in babirusas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basis and rabbi. For points, the strongest plays are abbas, babas, babus, barbs, burbs, rabbi, and sibbs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in babirusas produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, bars, bass, bras, ribs, rubs, and sirs. For points, the strongest plays are abba, baba, babu, barb, bibs, bubs, burb, and sibb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling babirusas turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ass, bar, bra, bus, rib, and rub. For points, the strongest plays are bib and bub — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in babirusas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in babirusas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in babirusas 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.
babirusas 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 babirusas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
babirusas is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing babirusas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are babirusas and babirussa, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from babirusas 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 babirusas produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.