Hidden inside abases sit abases and baases, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abases and baases tie for the highest Scrabble score from abases at 8 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in abases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abases 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 abases and baases, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bases. For points, the strongest plays are abase, bases, and sabes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abases produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with base, bass, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are abas, baas, baes, base, bass, sabe, and sabs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abases turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, baa, bae, bas, bes, and sab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each 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 abases 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.
abases 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
abases is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abases and baases, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abases 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 abases produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.