ballast needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ballast is the highest-scoring word from ballast, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ballast — and it is ballast itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ballast turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are basalt and tablas, 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ballast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with balls, blast, and stall. For points, the strongest plays are albas, baals, balas, balls, balsa, basal, blast, blats, sabal, and tabla — 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 ballast produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ball, bats, labs, last, salt, stab, and tabs. For points, the strongest plays are abas, alba, albs, baal, baas, ball, bals, bast, bats, blat, labs, 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 ballast turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, bat, lab, sat, and tab. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, alb, baa, bal, bas, bat, lab, sab, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ballast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and 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 ballast and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ballast 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for ballast. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ballast is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ballast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ballast, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ballast 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 ballast produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.