Hidden inside banalities sit banalities and insatiable, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 527 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
banalities and insatiable tie for the highest Scrabble score from banalities at 12 points. The top 10 of 527 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in banalities: one comes from rearranging its letters, and banalities itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are banalities and insatiable, each 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 banalities turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are basaltine and stainable, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banalities. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antibias, instable, labiates, satiable, sibilant, sibilate, and tibiales, 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 banalities produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesbian. For points, the strongest plays are abelian, abelias, ablates, ableist, abstain, aiblins, albites, alibies, astilbe, bailies, banties, basinal, basinet, bastile, bestial, bialies, blastie, labiate, lesbian, niblets, stabile, stibial, and stibine — 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 banalities turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, aliens, listen, silent, and tables. For points, the strongest plays are abates, abatis, abelia, ablate, ablest, ablins, abseil, absent, albeit, albite, alibis, bailie, baltis, basalt, bialis, binate, binits, blains, bleats, blinis, blites, niblet, sabine, stable, tablas, tables, tibiae, tibial, and tibias — 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 140 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banalities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, bails, baits, beans, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abase, abate, abets, ables, albas, alibi, baals, bails, baits, balas, bales, balsa, balti, banal, banes, basal, basil, basin, baste, bates, beals, beans, beast, beats, belts, bents, betas, biali, biles, binal, bines, binit, bints, bites, blain, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blent, blest, blets, blini, blite, labia, nabes, nabis, sabal, sabin, sable, tabes, tabla, table, and tibia — 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 banalities produces 158 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ants, bail, bait, bans, base, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abet, able, alba, albs, baal, baas, baes, bail, bait, bale, bals, bane, bani, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, beal, bean, beat, bels, belt, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, bias, bile, bine, bins, bint, bise, bite, bits, blae, blat, blet, blin, tabs, ibis, isba, labs, libs, nabe, nabs, nebs, nibs, sabe, slab, snib, and stab — 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 banalities turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, ban, bat, bet, bit, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, alb, baa, bae, bal, ban, bas, bat, bel, ben, bes, bet, bin, bis, bit, lab, lib, nab, neb, nib, sab, sib, 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banalities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, be, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
banalities 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 banalities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
banalities is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing banalities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are banalities and insatiable, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from banalities 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 banalities produce 527 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 140 five-letter words, 158 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.