Hidden inside bastes sit basest, basset, bastes and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
basest, basset, bastes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from bastes at 8 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in bastes: three come from rearranging its letters, and bastes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beasts. For points, the strongest plays are basest, basset, bastes, and beasts — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bases, beast, beats, bests, seats, and stabs. For points, the strongest plays are abets, bases, baste, basts, bates, beast, beats, bests, betas, sabes, stabs, 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 bastes produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with base, bass, bats, beat, best, bets, and east. For points, the strongest plays are abet, baes, base, bass, bast, bate, bats, beat, best, beta, bets, 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 bastes turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, bat, bet, eat, sat, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bae, bas, bat, bes, bet, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastes. 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 bastes 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.
bastes 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 four senses for bastes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
bastes is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are basest, basset, bastes, and beasts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bastes 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 bastes produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.