Hidden inside baptism sit baptism and bitmaps, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
baptism and bitmaps tie for the highest Scrabble score from baptism at 13 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in baptism: one comes from rearranging its letters, and baptism itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baptism and bitmaps, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling baptism 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 word is bitmap, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baptism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits and stamp. For points, the strongest plays are ambit, bimas, iambs, pimas, stamp, and tamps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in baptism produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, bait, bats, bits, maps, past, and pits. For points, the strongest plays are amps, bams, baps, bima, iamb, imps, maps, mibs, mips, pams, pima, samp, simp, spam, and tamp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling baptism turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, bam, bat, bit, its, map, and pit. For points, the strongest plays are amp, bam, bap, imp, map, mib, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baptism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, bi, ma, mi, pa, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in baptism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in baptism 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.
baptism 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 baptism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
baptism is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing baptism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are baptism and bitmaps, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from baptism 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 baptism produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.