Hidden inside abort sit abort, boart, and tabor, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abort, boart, and tabor tie for the highest Scrabble score from abort at 7 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in abort: two come from rearranging its letters, and abort itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort. For points, the strongest plays are abort, boart, and tabor — 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 abort produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boat and brat. For points, the strongest plays are boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, and brat — 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 abort turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, bar, bat, bra, rat, rob, and tab. For points, the strongest plays are arb, bar, bat, boa, bot, bra, bro, oba, orb, rob, and tab — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abort. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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 abort 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.
abort 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 four senses for abort. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
abort is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abort unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abort, boart, and tabor, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abort 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 abort produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.