baselines needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
baselines is the highest-scoring word from baselines, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in baselines — and it is baselines itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baselines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesbians. For points, the strongest plays are baseline, lesbians, seisable, and sensible — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in baselines produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesbian. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including lesbian, abseils and bailees.
Unscrambling baselines turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens, and leases. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including abeles, ablins and abseil.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baselines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and bails. For points, 32 words tie at 7 points, including bails, bases and basis.
Rearranging the letters in baselines produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and bans. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including able, bail and bans.
Unscrambling baselines turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ban and bee. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bee and lab.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baselines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in baselines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in baselines and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
baselines 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 three senses for baselines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
baselines is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing baselines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is baselines, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from baselines 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 baselines produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.