bastinades needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 502 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bastinades is the highest-scoring word from bastinades, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 502 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in bastinades — and it is bastinades itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bastinades turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abstained and bastinade, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastinades. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bandiest, diabases, and tabanids, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bastinades produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with instead. For points, the strongest plays are badness, bandies, bandits, basined, bedsits, biassed, diabase, indabas, and tabanid — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bastinades turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beasts, saints, sanest, stadia, stains, and stands. For points, the strongest plays are abased, abated, abides, badass, baited, bandas, bandit, basted, bedsit, biased, bidets, debits, and indaba — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastinades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, baits, bands, based, bases, basis, and beans. For points, the strongest plays are abide, baaed, banda, bands, baned, based, bated, beads, bends, bides, bidet, binds, debit, debts, sabed, and tabid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bastinades produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants, bade, bait, band, bans, and base. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, band, bead, beds, bend, bide, bids, bind, dabs, debs, debt, and dibs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bastinades turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, ass, ate, and bad. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, dab, deb, and dib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastinades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, be, id, and in. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in bastinades plus one additional letter.
bastinades 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bastinades is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastinades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bastinades, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bastinades 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 bastinades produce 502 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.