Hidden inside abscise sit abscise, scabies, and sebasic, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abscise, scabies, and sebasic tie for the highest Scrabble score from abscise at 11 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in abscise: two come from rearranging its letters, and abscise 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 abscise, scabies, and sebasic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abscise turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are basics and ceibas, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abscise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bases, basic, basis, and cases. For points, the strongest plays are basic, bices, ceiba, and scabs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abscise produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with base, bass, cabs, case, ices, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are bice, cabs, and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abscise turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, cab, ice, and sea. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abscise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — 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 abscise 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.
abscise 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for abscise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
abscise is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abscise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abscise, scabies, and sebasic, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abscise 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 abscise produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.