Hidden inside backtalks sit backtalks and talkbacks, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
backtalks and talkbacks tie for the highest Scrabble score from backtalks at 16 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in backtalks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and backtalks 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 backtalks and talkbacks, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in backtalks. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are backtalk and talkback, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling backtalks turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is blacks, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in backtalks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with backs, black, blast, lacks, and talks. For points, the strongest plays are aback, backs, and black — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in backtalks produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, back, bats, cabs, cast, cats, and labs. For points, the strongest play is back — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling backtalks turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ask, bat, cab, cat, lab, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ack and kab — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in backtalks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in backtalks 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.
backtalks is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
backtalks is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing backtalks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are backtalks and talkbacks, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from backtalks 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 backtalks produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.