Hidden inside balata sit albata, atabal, and balata, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
albata, atabal, and balata tie for the highest Scrabble score from balata at 8 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in balata: two come from rearranging its letters, and balata itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are albata, atabal, and balata, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling balata produces exactly one five-letter word: tabla. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in balata produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alba, baal, and blat, 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 balata turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, lab, and tab. For points, the strongest plays are aba, alb, baa, bal, bat, lab, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in balata. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — each worth 4 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 balata and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
balata 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 balata. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
balata is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing balata unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are albata, atabal, and balata, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from balata 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 balata produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.