abstemious needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 553 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abstemious is the highest-scoring word from abstemious, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 553 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in abstemious — and it is abstemious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstemious. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are iambuses, outbeams, subatoms, and subitems, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abstemious produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with busiest and submits. For points, the strongest plays are bemists, besmuts, biomass, outbeam, samboes, subatom, subitem, and submits — 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 abstemious turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuses, amuses, assume, beasts, mouses, steams, and submit. For points, the strongest plays are ambits, bemist, besmut, besoms, biomes, emboss, iambus, imbues, sambos, sebums, and submit — 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 151 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstemious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, abuse, amuse, atoms, autos, baits, and bases. For points, the strongest plays are ambit, ambos, beams, bemas, besom, bimas, biome, iambs, imbue, mabes, sambo, sebum, tombs, and umbos — 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 abstemious produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, atom, auto, bait, base, bass, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are ambo, bams, beam, bema, bima, mabe, mibs, mobs, bums, iamb, tomb, and umbo — 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 abstemious turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, ate, bam, bat, bet, and bit. For points, the strongest plays are bam, bum, mib, and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstemious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, be, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bi, bo, em, ma, me, mi, mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
abstemious 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 3-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 abstemious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
abstemious is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abstemious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abstemious, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abstemious 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 abstemious produce 553 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 151 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.