stubborn needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stubborn is the highest-scoring word from stubborn, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in stubborn — and it is stubborn itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stubborn 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 word is burbots, 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 stubborn turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is burbot, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stubborn. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bonus, burns, burnt, burst, tours, and turns. For points, the strongest play is burbs — 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 stubborn produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with born, buns, burn, bust, nuts, ours, and robs. For points, the strongest plays are bobs, bubo, bubs, and burb — 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 stubborn turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bun, bus, but, nor, not, nut, and our. For points, the strongest plays are bob 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stubborn. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest play is bo — worth 4 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 stubborn and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
stubborn 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 4-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 stubborn. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
stubborn is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stubborn unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stubborn, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stubborn 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 stubborn produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.