Hidden inside abacas sit abacas and casaba, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abacas and casaba tie for the highest Scrabble score from abacas at 10 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in abacas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abacas 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 abacas and casaba, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abacas produces exactly one five-letter word: abaca. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in abacas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abacas 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.
abacas 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 abacas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
abacas is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abacas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abacas and casaba, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abacas 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 abacas produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.