Hidden inside basalt sit basalt and tablas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
basalt and tablas tie for the highest Scrabble score from basalt at 8 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in basalt: one comes from rearranging its letters, and basalt 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 basalt and tablas, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basalt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blast. For points, the strongest plays are albas, baals, balas, balsa, basal, blast, blats, sabal, and tabla — 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 basalt produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bats, labs, last, salt, stab, and tabs. For points, the strongest plays are abas, alba, albs, baal, baas, bals, bast, bats, blat, labs, slab, stab, and tabs — 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 basalt turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, lab, sat, and tab. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, alb, baa, bal, bas, bat, lab, sab, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basalt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — 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 basalt 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.
basalt 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 2-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 basalt. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
basalt is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing basalt unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are basalt and tablas, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from basalt 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 basalt produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.