Hidden inside ablution sit ablution and abutilon, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ablution and abutilon tie for the highest Scrabble score from ablution at 10 points. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ablution: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ablution 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 ablution and abutilon, 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 ablution produces 5 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 bailout, botulin, butanol, and tabouli, 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 ablution turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are albino, bonita, obtain, tabuli, and unbolt, 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablution. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, built, and until. For points, the strongest plays are aboil, about, balti, baton, binal, biont, biota, blain, bloat, blunt, boult, built, nubia, tabun, and tubal — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ablution produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, bail, bait, boat, boil, and into. For points, the strongest plays are abut, bail, bait, bani, bint, blat, blin, blot, boat, boil, bola, bolt, bota, bout, buna, bunt, obia, obit, tabu, and tuba — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ablution turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ban, bat, bit, bun, but, and lab. For points, the strongest plays are alb, bal, ban, bat, bin, bio, bit, boa, bot, bun, but, lab, lib, lob, nab, nib, nob, nub, oba, obi, tab, and tub — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablution. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ablution 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.
ablution 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for ablution. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ablution is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ablution unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ablution and abutilon, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ablution 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 ablution produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.