Hidden inside ablating sit ablating and bangtail, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ablating and bangtail tie for the highest Scrabble score from ablating at 11 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ablating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ablating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ablating and bangtail, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ablating produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abating and tabling, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ablating turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baaing, baling, and bating, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again and giant. For points, the strongest play is bling — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ablating produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait and bang. For points, the strongest plays are bang, bing, blag, and glib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ablating turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, bag and ban. For points, the strongest plays are bag, big, gab, and gib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in ablating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ablating and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ablating 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ablating is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ablating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ablating and bangtail, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ablating 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 ablating produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.