balloting needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
balloting is the highest-scoring word from balloting, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in balloting — and it is balloting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling balloting produces exactly one eight-letter word: bloating. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in balloting produces 10 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 balling, biltong, boating, bolling, bolting, and tabling, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling balloting turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gallon and global. For points, the strongest plays are bagnio, baling, bating, gabion, global, globin, and goblin — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in balloting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, bingo, giant, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are bigot, bingo, bling, bogan, boing, and goban — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in balloting produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait, ball, bang, bill, blog, and boat. For points, the strongest plays are bang, bing, biog, blag, blog, bong, glib, and glob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling balloting turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, all, ant, bag, ban, bat, and big. For points, the strongest plays are bag, big, bog, gab, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in balloting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in balloting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in balloting 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.
balloting 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for balloting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
balloting is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing balloting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is balloting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from balloting 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 balloting produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.