Hidden inside bastille sit balliest, bastille, and listable, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 275 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
balliest, bastille, and listable tie for the highest Scrabble score from bastille at 10 points. The top 10 of 275 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in bastille: two come from rearranging its letters, and bastille itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are balliest, bastille, and listable, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bastille produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ballets. For points, the strongest plays are ableist, albites, astilbe, ballets, ballies, bastile, bestial, billets, blastie, and stabile — 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 bastille turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, ballet, labels, and tables. For points, the strongest plays are ablest, abseil, albeit, albite, alible, ballet, baltis, billet, bleats, blites, labels, labile, liable, libels, stable, and tables — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastille. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, bails, baits, balls, beast, beats, and bells. For points, the strongest plays are abets, ables, bails, baits, bales, balls, balti, basil, baste, bates, beals, beast, beats, bells, belts, betas, biles, bills, bites, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blest, blets, blite, label, libel, sable, tabes, and table — 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 bastille produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, bait, ball, base, bats, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, albs, baes, bail, bait, bale, ball, bals, base, bast, bate, bats, beal, beat, bell, bels, belt, best, beta, bets, bias, bile, bill, bise, bite, bits, blae, blat, blet, isba, labs, libs, sabe, slab, 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 bastille turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ate, bat, bet, bit, eat, and ill. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, bae, bal, bas, bat, bel, bes, bet, bis, bit, lab, lib, sab, sib, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastille. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — 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 bastille and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
bastille 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 two senses for bastille. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bastille is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastille unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are balliest, bastille, and listable, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bastille 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 bastille produce 275 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.