Hidden inside basters sit basters and breasts, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
basters and breasts tie for the highest Scrabble score from basters at 9 points. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in basters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and basters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breasts. For points, the strongest plays are basters and breasts — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling basters turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, beasts, breast, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are barest, basest, basser, basset, baster, bastes, beasts, breast, sabers, sabres, and tabers — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bases, bears, beast, beats, bests, brats, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are abets, bares, baser, bases, baste, basts, bates, bears, beast, beats, bests, betas, braes, brass, brats, saber, sabes, sabre, stabs, taber, and tabes — 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 basters produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bare, bars, base, bass, bats, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are abet, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bass, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, best, beta, bets, brae, bras, brat, rebs, sabe, sabs, 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 basters turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bes, bet, bra, reb, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 basters 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.
basters 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 1-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 basters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
basters is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing basters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are basters and breasts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from basters 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 basters produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.