Hidden inside basten is one standout: absent, a six-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
BASTEN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ABSENT (verb), to take or keep away, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
absent is the highest-scoring word from basten, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling basten produces exactly one six-letter word: absent. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beans, beast, and beats. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including beans, beast and beats.
Rearranging the letters in basten produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bans and base. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including bans, base and bats.
Unscrambling basten turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and ban. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bat and bet.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in basten plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in basten 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is absent, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from basten 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 basten produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 16 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.