abates needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abates is the highest-scoring word from abates, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in abates — and it is abates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beast and beats. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including beast, beats and abase.
Rearranging the letters in abates produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with base, bats and beat. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including base, bats and beat.
Unscrambling abates turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat and bet. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including bat, bet and tab.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in abates 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.
abates 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for abates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
abates is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abates, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abates 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 abates produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.