Hidden inside abstained sit abstained and bastinade, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 389 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abstained and bastinade tie for the highest Scrabble score from abstained at 12 points. The top 10 of 389 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in abstained: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abstained itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abstained and bastinade, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstained. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bandiest and tabanids, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abstained produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with instead. For points, the strongest plays are bandies, bandits, basined, diabase, indabas, and tabanid — 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 abstained turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stadia. For points, the strongest plays are abased, abated, abides, baited, bandas, bandit, basted, bedsit, biased, bidets, debits, and indaba — 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 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, baits, bands, based, beans, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abide, baaed, banda, bands, baned, based, bated, beads, bends, bides, bidet, binds, debit, debts, sabed, and tabid — 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 abstained produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants, bade, bait, band, bans, and base. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, band, bead, beds, bend, bide, bids, bind, dabs, debs, debt, and dibs — 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 abstained turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, ate, bad, and ban. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, dab, deb, and dib — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, be, id, and in. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in abstained plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abstained and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
abstained 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.
abstained is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abstained unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abstained and bastinade, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abstained 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 abstained produce 389 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.