basilisks needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
basilisks is the highest-scoring word from basilisks, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in basilisks — and it is basilisks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling basilisks produces exactly one eight-letter word: basilisk. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling basilisks turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kiblas, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basilisks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, basis, sails, and silks. For points, the strongest plays are balks, basks, bilks, bisks, and kibla — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in basilisks produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, bail, bass, kiss, labs, sail, and silk. For points, the strongest plays are balk, bask, bilk, bisk, and kabs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling basilisks turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ass, lab, and ski. For points, the strongest play is kab — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basilisks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 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 basilisks 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.
basilisks 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 three senses for basilisks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
basilisks is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing basilisks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is basilisks, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from basilisks 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 basilisks produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.