abstention 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, 484 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abstention is the highest-scoring word from abstention, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 484 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in abstention — and it is abstention itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abstention turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abstinent, obstinate, and sanbenito, 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 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstention. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antisnob, bonniest, botanies, botanise, botanist, niobates, and obeisant, 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 abstention produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nations, station, and tension. For points, the strongest plays are bannets, banties, basinet, bastion, batiste, battens, benison, bistate, boniest, bonitas, bonnets, bonnies, botnets, niobate, and obtains — 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 abstention turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bitten, insane, nation, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are absent, bannet, basion, batons, batten, beanos, bennis, bentos, betons, bettas, binate, bionts, biotas, bitten, boites, bonita, bonnes, bonnet, bonnie, bonsai, botnet, obtain, obtest, sabine, sobeit, and tobies — 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 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, beans, beast, beats, bites, boats, and bones. For points, the strongest plays are abets, baits, banes, banns, basin, baste, bates, baton, batts, beano, beans, beast, beats, benni, bento, bents, besot, betas, beton, betta, bines, bints, biont, biota, bison, bites, bitts, boast, boats, boite, bones, bonne, botas, botts, ebons, nabes, nabis, obias, obits, sabin, sabot, and tabes — 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 abstention produces 140 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bait, bans, base, bats, bean, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, baes, bait, bane, bani, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, batt, bean, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, bias, bine, bins, bint, bios, bise, bite, bits, bitt, boas, boat, bone, bota, bots, bott, ebon, isba, nabe, nabs, nebs, nibs, nobs, obas, obes, obia, obis, obit, sabe, snib, snob, soba, stab, stob, 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 abstention turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, ban, bat, bet, bit, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bae, ban, bas, bat, ben, bes, bet, bin, bio, bis, bit, boa, bos, bot, nab, neb, nib, nob, oba, obe, obi, sab, sib, sob, 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abstention. 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, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in abstention plus one additional letter.
abstention 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 one sense for abstention. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
abstention is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abstention unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abstention, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abstention 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 abstention produce 484 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.