abilities needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abilities is the highest-scoring word from abilities, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in abilities — and it is abilities itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abilities. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sibilate, tibiales, and tibialis, 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 abilities produces 13 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 ableist, albites, alibies, astilbe, bailies, bastile, bestial, bialies, blastie, stabile, and stibial, 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 abilities turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest and tables. For points, the strongest plays are ablest, abseil, albeit, albite, alibis, bailie, baltis, bialis, bleats, blites, stable, tables, tibiae, tibial, and tibias — 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 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abilities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, bails, baits, beast, beats, belts, and bites. For points, the strongest plays are abets, ables, alibi, bails, baits, bales, balti, basil, baste, bates, beals, beast, beats, belts, betas, biali, biles, bites, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blest, blets, blite, sable, tabes, table, and tibia — 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 abilities produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, bait, base, bats, beat, and belt. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, albs, baes, bail, bait, bale, bals, base, bast, bate, bats, beal, beat, bels, belt, best, beta, bets, bias, bile, bise, bite, bits, blae, blat, blet, ibis, isba, labs, libs, sabe, slab, stab, 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 abilities turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat, bet, bit, eat, its, and lab. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, bae, bal, bas, bat, bel, bes, bet, bis, bit, lab, lib, sab, sib, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abilities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, is, and it. 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in abilities plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abilities 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.
abilities 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 two senses for abilities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
abilities is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abilities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abilities, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abilities 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 abilities produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.