Hidden inside abuilding sit abuilding and audibling, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abuilding and audibling tie for the highest Scrabble score from abuilding at 13 points. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in abuilding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abuilding 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 abuilding and audibling, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling abuilding produces exactly one eight-letter word: building. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abuilding produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bailing and dialing. For points, the strongest plays are abiding, balding, blading, and daubing — 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 abuilding turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is biding, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abuilding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blind and build. For points, the strongest plays are bindi, bland, blind, bling, build, and unbid — 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 abuilding produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bald, band, bang, bind, dial, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are bald, band, bang, baud, bidi, bind, bing, blag, bund, bung, daub, and glib — 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 abuilding turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, bad, bag, ban, bid, and big. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bag, bid, big, bud, bug, dab, dib, dub, gab, and gib — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abuilding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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.
Swap a single tile in abuilding 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.
abuilding 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
abuilding is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abuilding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abuilding and audibling, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abuilding 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 abuilding produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.