abbreviate needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abbreviate is the highest-scoring word from abbreviate, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in abbreviate — and it is abbreviate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abbreviate produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vibrate, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abbreviate turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beaver and rabbit. For points, the strongest plays are beaver and brevet — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abbreviate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brave, bribe, rabbi, and tribe. For points, the strongest plays are brava, brave, bravi, and breve — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abbreviate produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bait and bare. For points, the strongest plays are verb and vibe — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abbreviate turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are bib and ebb — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abbreviate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in abbreviate plus one additional letter.
abbreviate 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 abbreviate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
abbreviate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abbreviate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abbreviate, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abbreviate 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 abbreviate produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.