Hidden inside bawler sit bawler and warble, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bawler and warble tie for the highest Scrabble score from bawler at 11 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bawler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bawler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bawler and warble, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bawler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler. For points, the strongest play is brawl — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bawler produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare, bear, blew, real, and wear. For points, the strongest plays are bawl, blaw, blew, braw, and brew — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bawler turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bar, bra, ear, era, lab, and law. For points, the strongest plays are wab and web — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bawler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aw, be, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 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 bawler and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
bawler 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for bawler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
bawler is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bawler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bawler and warble, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bawler 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 bawler produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.