Hidden inside bastion sit bastion, bonitas, and obtains, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bastion, bonitas, and obtains tie for the highest Scrabble score from bastion at 9 points. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in bastion: two come from rearranging its letters, and bastion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bastion, bonitas, and obtains, 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 bastion turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are basion, batons, bionts, biotas, bonita, bonsai, and obtain, 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, boats, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are baits, basin, baton, bints, biont, biota, bison, boast, boats, botas, nabis, obias, obits, sabin, and sabot — 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 bastion produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bait, bans, bats, bits, boat, and into. For points, the strongest plays are bait, bani, bans, bast, bats, bias, bins, bint, bios, bits, boas, boat, bota, bots, isba, nabs, nibs, nobs, obas, obia, obis, obit, snib, snob, soba, stab, stob, 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 bastion turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ban, bat, bit, its, not, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are abs, ban, bas, bat, bin, bio, bis, bit, boa, bos, bot, nab, nib, nob, oba, obi, sab, sib, sob, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — 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 bastion 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.
bastion 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for bastion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
bastion is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bastion, bonitas, and obtains, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bastion 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 bastion produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.