Hidden inside bastardies sit bastardies and bastardise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 641 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bastardies and bastardise tie for the highest Scrabble score from bastardies at 13 points. The top 10 of 641 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in bastardies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bastardies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bastardies and bastardise, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastardies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bastards and disaster. For points, the strongest plays are bastards, dabsters, diabases, redbaits, seabirds, sidebars, and tribades — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bastardies produces 58 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bastard and breasts. For points, the strongest plays are abiders, abrades, baidars, bastard, batards, bedsits, bestrid, biassed, bistred, braised, brassed, dabster, darbies, diabase, disbars, redbait, seabird, serdabs, sidebar, tabards, and tribade — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bastardies turns up 118 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, beards, beasts, breads, breast, brides, and driest. For points, the strongest plays are abased, abated, abider, abides, abrade, ardebs, badass, baidar, baited, bardes, basted, batard, beards, bedsit, biased, biders, bidets, braids, breads, brides, debars, debits, debris, disbar, rebids, sabred, serdab, and tabard — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 181 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastardies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, areas, aside, baits, based, bases, and basis. For points, the strongest plays are abide, ardeb, baaed, barde, bards, bared, based, bated, beads, beard, bider, bides, bidet, birds, brads, braid, bread, bride, darbs, debar, debit, debts, drabs, dribs, rabid, rebid, sabed, and tabid — 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 bastardies produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, area, arts, bade, bait, and bare. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bard, bead, beds, bide, bids, bird, brad, bred, dabs, darb, debs, debt, dibs, drab, and drib — 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 bastardies turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, dab, deb, and dib — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastardies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, be, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bastardies plus one additional letter.
bastardies 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 bastardies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
bastardies is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastardies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bastardies and bastardise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bastardies 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 bastardies produce 641 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 58 seven-letter words, 118 six-letter words, 181 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.