Hidden inside ables sit ables, bales, beals and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ables, bales, beals and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ables at 7 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in ables: four come from rearranging its letters, and ables itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ables, bales, beals and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ables produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, base and labs. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including able, base and labs.
Unscrambling ables turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lab and sea. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including lab, abs and alb.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ables. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
27 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in ables plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ables and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
ables 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for ables. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ables is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ables unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ables, bales, beals, blase, and sable, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ables 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 ables produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.