Hidden inside tailboard sit broadtail and tailboard, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 271 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadtail and tailboard tie for the highest Scrabble score from tailboard at 12 points. The top 10 of 271 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tailboard: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tailboard 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 broadtail and tailboard, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tailboard produces 6 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 labroid and tabloid, 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 tailboard turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aboard. For points, the strongest plays are aboard, abroad, baidar, batard, bridal, ribald, 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 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, altar, board, broad, labor, radio, and trail. For points, the strongest plays are adbot, board, braid, broad, dobla, dobra, rabid, 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 tailboard produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait, bald, bird, boat, boil, and bold. For points, the strongest plays are bald, bard, bird, bold, brad, darb, 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 tailboard turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, art, bad, bar, bat, and bid. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bid, bod, dab, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailboard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, id, it, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tailboard plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tailboard 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.
tailboard 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 one sense for tailboard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tailboard is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tailboard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are broadtail and tailboard, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tailboard 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 tailboard produce 271 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.