Hidden inside aubrieta sit aubretia and aubrieta, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aubretia and aubrieta tie for the highest Scrabble score from aubrieta at 10 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in aubrieta: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aubrieta 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 aubretia and aubrieta, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aubrieta turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abater, arbute, baiter and 5 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aubrieta. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tribe and uteri. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including tribe, abate and beaut.
Rearranging the letters in aubrieta produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bait and bare. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bare and bear.
Unscrambling aubrieta turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aubrieta. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in aubrieta plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aubrieta and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
aubrieta 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.
aubrieta is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aubrieta unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aubretia and aubrieta, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aubrieta 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 aubrieta produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.