Hidden inside airbases sit airbases and arabises, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
airbases and arabises tie for the highest Scrabble score from airbases at 10 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in airbases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and airbases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are airbases and arabises, 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 airbases produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abasers, airbase, braises, and brassie, 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 airbases turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rabies and raises. For points, the strongest plays are abaser, abases, arabis, baases, basser, biases, birses, braise, brises, rabies, sabers, sabirs, sabras, and sabres — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in airbases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, bases, basis, bears, raise, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are abase, abris, bares, baser, bases, basis, bassi, bears, biers, birse, bises, braes, brass, bries, briss, isbas, rabis, ribes, saber, sabes, sabir, sabra, and sabre — 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 airbases produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area, bare, bars, base, bass, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abri, arbs, baas, baes, bare, bars, base, bass, bear, bias, bier, bise, brae, bras, brie, bris, isba, rabi, rebs, ribs, sabe, sabs, and sibs — 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 airbases turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ass, bar, bra, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, arb, baa, bae, bar, bas, bes, bis, bra, reb, rib, sab, and sib — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in airbases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be, and is. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in airbases plus one additional letter.
airbases is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
airbases is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing airbases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are airbases and arabises, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from airbases 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 airbases produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.