Hidden inside aborted sit aborted, borated, and tabored, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aborted, borated, and tabored tie for the highest Scrabble score from aborted at 10 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in aborted: two come from rearranging its letters, and aborted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborted. For points, the strongest plays are aborted, borated, and tabored — 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 aborted turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boated and debtor, 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aborted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, adore, beard, board, bored, bread, and broad. For points, the strongest plays are abode, adbot, adobe, ardeb, barde, bared, bated, beard, board, bored, bread, broad, debar, dobra, orbed, and robed — 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 aborted produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, bare, bear, beat, boat, bore, and brat. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bard, bead, bode, brad, bred, darb, debt, dobe, and drab — 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 aborted turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bad, bar, bat, and bed. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bod, dab, and deb — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aborted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, be, do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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 aborted and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
aborted 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.
aborted is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aborted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aborted, borated, and tabored, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aborted 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 aborted produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.