Hidden inside bastilles sit ballsiest and bastilles, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 372 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ballsiest and bastilles tie for the highest Scrabble score from bastilles at 11 points. The top 10 of 372 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in bastilles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bastilles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ballsiest and bastilles, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastilles. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ableists, astilbes, balliest, bastiles, bastille, blasties, listable, and stabiles, 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 bastilles produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ballets. For points, the strongest plays are ableist, abseils, albites, astilbe, ballets, ballies, ballses, bastile, bestial, billets, blastie, sablest, stabile, and stables — 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 bastilles turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, aisles, ballet, beasts, blasts, labels, and stalls. For points, the strongest plays are ablest, abseil, albeit, albite, alible, ballet, baltis, basest, basils, basset, bastes, beasts, biases, billet, blasts, bleats, blites, labels, labile, liable, libels, sables, 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 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastilles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, bails, baits, balls, bases, basis, and beast. For points, the strongest plays are abets, ables, bails, baits, bales, balls, balti, bases, basil, basis, bassi, baste, basts, bates, beals, beast, beats, bells, belts, bests, betas, biles, bills, bises, bites, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, bless, blest, blets, bliss, blite, isbas, label, libel, sabes, sable, slabs, stabs, 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 bastilles produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, bait, ball, base, bass, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, albs, baes, bail, bait, bale, ball, bals, base, bass, bast, bate, bats, beal, beat, bell, bels, belt, best, beta, bets, bias, bile, bill, bise, bite, bits, blae, blat, blet, isba, labs, libs, sabe, sabs, sibs, 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 bastilles turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ass, ate, bat, bet, bit, and eat. 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 bastilles. 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 bastilles 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.
bastilles 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.
bastilles is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastilles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ballsiest and bastilles, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bastilles 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 bastilles produce 372 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.