Hidden inside aborters sit aborters and taborers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aborters and taborers tie for the highest Scrabble score from aborters at 10 points. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in aborters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aborters 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 aborters and taborers, 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 aborters produces 11 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 aborter, arbores, barrets, barters, boaster, boaters, borates, rebatos, sorbate, and taborer, 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 aborters turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, arrest, barest, breast, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, arbors, barest, barres, barret, barter, baster, boarts, boater, borate, boreas, borers, breast, broast, rebars, rebato, resorb, sorbet, strobe, tabers, and tabors — 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 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aborters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, barer, bears, beast, beats, boats, and brats. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abort, arbor, barer, bares, barre, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, besot, betas, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, borer, bores, borts, botas, braes, brats, brose, rebar, robes, saber, sabot, sabre, sober, taber, tabes, 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 aborters produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bare, bars, base, bats, bear, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, best, beta, bets, boar, boas, boat, bora, bore, bort, bota, bots, brae, bras, brat, bros, obas, obes, orbs, rebs, robe, robs, sabe, soba, sorb, stab, stob, and tabs — 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 aborters turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bet, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bes, bet, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, brr, oba, obe, orb, reb, rob, sab, sob, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aborters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, or, so, 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 aborters 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.
aborters 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.
aborters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aborters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aborters and taborers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aborters 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 aborters produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.