abstainers needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 687 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abstainers is the highest-scoring word from abstainers, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 687 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in abstainers — and it is abstainers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abstainers turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abstainer, atabrines, banisters, bartisans, and ratsbanes, 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 28 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstainers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abatises, abstains, airbases, antbears, arabises, atabrine, banister, baristas, barniest, bartisan, basinets, bassinet, 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 abstainers produces 62 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breasts and nastier. For points, the strongest plays are abasers, abaters, abreast, absents, abstain, airbase, antbear, baiters, banters, banties, barista, barites, basinet, basters, bestirs, bisters, bistres, braises, brassie, breasts, brisant, rebaits, sabines, 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 abstainers turns up 128 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, beasts, brains, breast, rabies, raises, and resist. For points, the strongest plays are abaser, abases, abater, abates, abatis, absent, arabis, baases, bairns, baiter, banter, barest, barite, basest, basins, basser, basset, baster, bastes, beasts, bestir, biases, binate, biners, birses, bister, bistre, biters, brains, braise, brants, breast, brents, brines, brises, rabats, rabies, rebait, sabers, sabine, sabins, sabirs, sabras, sabres, 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 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstainers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, baits, barns, bases, basis, beans, and bears. For points, the strongest plays are abase, abate, abets, abris, bairn, baits, banes, bares, barns, baser, bases, basin, basis, bassi, baste, basts, bates, beans, bears, beast, beats, bents, bests, betas, biers, biner, bines, bints, birse, bises, biter, bites, braes, brain, brans, brant, brass, brats, brens, brent, bries, brine, brins, briss, brits, isbas, nabes, nabis, rabat, rabis, ribes, saber, sabes, sabin, sabir, sabra, sabre, snibs, stabs, 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 abstainers produces 161 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, bass, 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, nabe, nabs, nebs, nibs, rabi, rebs, ribs, sabe, sabs, sibs, snib, stab, tabs, and isba — 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 abstainers turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ass, ate, and ban. 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 abstainers. 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.
abstainers 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 abstainers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
abstainers is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abstainers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abstainers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abstainers 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 abstainers produce 687 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 nine-letter words, 28 eight-letter words, 62 seven-letter words, 128 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 161 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.