Hidden inside bantam sit bantam and batman, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bantam and batman tie for the highest Scrabble score from bantam at 10 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bantam: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bantam 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 bantam and batman, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bantam. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are atman, manat, and manta, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bantam produces 3 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 atma and mana, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bantam turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, bam and ban. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bantam. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, and ma — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bantam plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bantam 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.
bantam 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 two senses for bantam. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bantam is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bantam unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bantam and batman, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bantam 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 bantam produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.