Hidden inside aubrietas sit aubretias and aubrietas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 400 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aubretias and aubrietas tie for the highest Scrabble score from aubrietas at 11 points. The top 10 of 400 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in aubrietas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aubrietas 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 aubretias and aubrietas, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aubrietas. 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.
Rearranging the letters in aubrietas produces 16 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 abaters, abreast, airbase and 10 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aubrietas turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, breast and buries. For points, 39 words tie at 8 points, including barest, breast and buries.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aubrietas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, areas and baits. For points, 55 words tie at 7 points, including abuse, baits and bears.
Rearranging the letters in aubrietas produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area and arts. For points, 53 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bare and bars.
Unscrambling aubrietas turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aubrietas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in aubrietas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aubrietas 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.
aubrietas 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.
aubrietas is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aubrietas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aubretias and aubrietas, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aubrietas 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 aubrietas produce 400 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.