Hidden inside baluster sit baluster and rustable, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 409 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
baluster and rustable tie for the highest Scrabble score from baluster at 10 points. The top 10 of 409 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in baluster: one comes from rearranging its letters, and baluster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baluster and rustable, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in baluster produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with butlers and subtler. For points, the strongest plays are arbutes, blaster, bluster, bursate, bustler, butlers, labrets, stabler, sublate, and subtler — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling baluster turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, alerts, alters, barest, bluest, breast, and brutal. For points, the strongest plays are ablest, abuser, arbute, balers, barest, baster, beauts, blares, blears, bleats, bluest, bluets, blurts, breast, brutal, brutes, burets, bursae, bursal, buster, bustle, butler, butles, labret, rebuts, rubels, rubles, sabler, stable, suable, sublet, subtle, tabers, tables, tubers, and usable — 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 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baluster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, abuse, alert, alter, bears, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abler, ables, abuse, abuts, baler, bales, bares, baser, baste, bates, beals, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, belts, betas, blare, blase, blast, blate, blats, blear, bleat, blest, blets, bluer, blues, bluet, blurs, blurt, braes, brats, brute, bruts, buras, buret, burls, bursa, burse, burst, butes, butle, lubes, rebus, rebut, rubel, rubes, ruble, saber, sable, sabre, slurb, suber, taber, tabes, table, tabus, tsuba, tubae, tubal, tubas, tuber, and tubes — 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 baluster produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, arts, bare, bars, base, bats, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, abut, albs, arbs, baes, bale, bals, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, beal, bear, beat, beau, bels, belt, best, beta, bets, blae, blat, blet, blue, blur, brae, bras, brat, brut, bura, burl, burs, bust, bute, buts, labs, lube, rebs, rube, rubs, sabe, slab, slub, stab, stub, suba, tabs, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs, and urbs — 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 baluster turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bet, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, arb, bae, bal, bar, bas, bat, bel, bes, bet, bra, bur, bus, but, lab, reb, rub, sab, sub, tab, tub, and urb — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baluster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 baluster and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
baluster 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 one sense for baluster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
baluster is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing baluster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are baluster and rustable, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from baluster 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 baluster produce 409 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.