Hidden inside abreast sit abaters and abreast, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abaters and abreast tie for the highest Scrabble score from abreast at 9 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in abreast: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abreast itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abaters and abreast, 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 abreast turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest and breast. For points, the strongest plays are abaser, abater, abates, barest, baster, breast, rabats, and tabers — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abreast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, bears, beast, beats, brats, rates, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are abase, abate, abets, bares, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, betas, braes, brats, rabat, saber, sabra, sabre, taber, and tabes — 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 abreast produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arts, bare, bars, base, bats, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abet, arbs, baas, baes, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, best, beta, bets, brae, bras, brat, rebs, sabe, stab, 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 abreast turns up 40 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 aba, abs, arb, baa, bae, bar, bas, bat, bes, bet, bra, reb, sab, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abreast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 abreast 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.
abreast 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 one sense for abreast. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
abreast is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abreast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abaters and abreast, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abreast 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 abreast produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.