Hidden inside ablegates sit ablegates and stageable, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 320 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ablegates and stageable tie for the highest Scrabble score from ablegates at 12 points. The top 10 of 320 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ablegates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ablegates 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 ablegates and stageable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablegates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ablegate, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ablegates produces 10 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 beagles and getable, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ablegates turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, bagels, and tables. For points, the strongest plays are bagels, beagle, begets, belgas, gables, glebae, glebes, and seabag — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablegates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bagel, beast, beats, belts, blast, blest, and gates. For points, the strongest plays are bagel, begat, beget, belga, blags, gable, gleba, and glebe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ablegates produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ages, bags, base, bats, beat, and bees. For points, the strongest plays are bags, begs, blag, and gabs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ablegates turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, bag, bat, bee, beg, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bag, beg, and gab — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablegates. 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.
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 ablegates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ablegates 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.
ablegates 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.
ablegates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ablegates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ablegates and stageable, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ablegates 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 ablegates produce 320 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.