Hidden inside abasement sit abasement and entamebas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abasement and entamebas tie for the highest Scrabble score from abasement at 13 points. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in abasement: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abasement 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 abasement and entamebas, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abasement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basement. For points, the strongest plays are basement and entameba — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abasement produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meanest. For points, the strongest plays are amebean, bantams, baseman, basemen, batsman, batsmen, bemeans, and benames — each 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 abasement turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beaten. For points, the strongest plays are amebae, ameban, amebas, bantam, batman, batmen, bemata, bemean, bename, and manebs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abasement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beams, beans, beast, beats, eaten, mates, and means. For points, the strongest plays are abeam, ameba, beams, bemas, mabes, maneb, and samba — each 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 abasement produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, bans, base, bats, beam, and bean. For points, the strongest plays are bams, beam, bema, and mabe — 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 abasement turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, bam, ban, bat, bee, and bet. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abasement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, be, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in abasement plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abasement 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.
abasement 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 3-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 abasement. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
abasement is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abasement unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abasement and entamebas, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abasement 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 abasement produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.