Hidden inside alterable sit alterable and relatable, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alterable and relatable tie for the highest Scrabble score from alterable at 11 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in alterable: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alterable 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 alterable and relatable, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alterable. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rateable and tearable, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alterable produces 7 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 bleater, eatable, labeler and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alterable turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ballet, relate, and taller. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including ballet, abater and ablate.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alterable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, alert and altar. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including abler, label and rebel.
Rearranging the letters in alterable produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, area and ball. For points, 22 words tie at 6 points, including able, ball and bare.
Unscrambling alterable turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are and art. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bee.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alterable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in alterable 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.
alterable 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 alterable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
alterable is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alterable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alterable and relatable, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alterable 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 alterable produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.