Hidden inside abstainer sit abstainer and atabrines, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 520 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abstainer and atabrines tie for the highest Scrabble score from abstainer at 11 points. The top 10 of 520 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in abstainer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abstainer 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 abstainer and atabrines, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstainer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antbears, atabrine, banister, barniest, bartisan, and ratsbane, 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 abstainer produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastier. For points, the strongest plays are abaters, abreast, abstain, airbase, antbear, baiters, banters, banties, barista, barites, basinet, brisant, rebaits, and terbias — 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 abstainer turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, brains, breast, rabies, trains, and tribes. For points, the strongest plays are abaser, abater, abates, abatis, absent, arabis, bairns, baiter, banter, barest, barite, baster, bestir, binate, biners, bister, bistre, biters, brains, braise, brants, breast, brents, brines, rabats, rabies, rebait, sabine, tabers, terbia, and tribes — 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 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, baits, barns, beans, bears, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abase, abate, abets, abris, bairn, baits, banes, bares, barns, baser, basin, baste, bates, beans, bears, beast, beats, bents, betas, biers, biner, bines, bints, birse, biter, bites, braes, brain, brans, brant, brats, brens, brent, bries, brine, brins, brits, nabes, nabis, rabat, rabis, ribes, saber, sabin, sabir, sabra, sabre, taber, tabes, and tribe — 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 abstainer produces 146 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, area, arts, bait, bans, and bare. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abet, abri, arbs, baas, baes, bait, bane, bani, bans, bare, barn, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bean, bear, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, bias, bier, bine, bins, bint, bise, bite, bits, brae, bran, bras, brat, bren, brie, brin, bris, brit, isba, nabe, nabs, nebs, nibs, rabi, rebs, ribs, sabe, snib, 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 abstainer turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ate, ban, and bar. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, arb, baa, bae, ban, bar, bas, bat, ben, bes, bet, bin, bis, bit, bra, nab, neb, nib, reb, rib, sab, sib, 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, be, in, is, and it. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in abstainer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abstainer 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.
abstainer 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 abstainer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
abstainer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abstainer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abstainer and atabrines, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abstainer 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 abstainer produce 520 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 146 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.