Hidden inside alibis sit alibis and bialis, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alibis and bialis tie for the highest Scrabble score from alibis at 8 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in alibis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alibis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alibis and bialis, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alibis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails. For points, the strongest plays are alibi, bails, basil, and biali — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alibis produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, labs, and sail. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including bail, labs and albs.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alibis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in alibis and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
alibis 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 three senses for alibis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
alibis is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alibis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alibis and bialis, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alibis 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 alibis produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.