Hidden inside abettor sit abettor and taboret, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abettor and taboret tie for the highest Scrabble score from abettor at 9 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in abettor: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abettor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abettor and taboret, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abettor turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are batter, bettor, boater and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abettor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort and treat. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including abort, betta and boart.
Rearranging the letters in abettor produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear and beat. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including bare, bear and beat.
Unscrambling abettor turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abettor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in abettor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abettor and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
abettor 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 one sense for abettor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
abettor is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abettor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abettor and taboret, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abettor 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 abettor produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.