Hidden inside abhorrent sit abhorrent and earthborn, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 284 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abhorrent and earthborn tie for the highest Scrabble score from abhorrent at 14 points. The top 10 of 284 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in abhorrent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abhorrent 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 abhorrent and earthborn, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abhorrent produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with another and brother. For points, the strongest plays are bethorn and brother — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abhorrent turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bother, breath, and rather. For points, the strongest plays are bather, bertha, bother, breath, and harbor — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abhorrent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, barer, bathe, boner, borne, earth, and heart. For points, the strongest plays are abhor, bathe, berth, bohea, broth, obeah, rehab, and throb — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abhorrent produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, barn, bath, bean, bear, beat, and bent. For points, the strongest plays are baht, bath, beth, both, and herb — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abhorrent turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, bah, ban, and bar. For points, the strongest plays are bah and hob — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abhorrent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, be, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in abhorrent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abhorrent 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.
abhorrent 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 abhorrent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
abhorrent is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abhorrent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abhorrent and earthborn, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abhorrent 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 abhorrent produce 284 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.