Hidden inside bastioned sit bastioned and botanised, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 574 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bastioned and botanised tie for the highest Scrabble score from bastioned at 12 points. The top 10 of 574 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in bastioned: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bastioned 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 bastioned and botanised, 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 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastioned. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bandiest, banditos, bedsonia, and obtained, 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 bastioned produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donates and instead. For points, the strongest plays are bandies, bandito, bandits, basined, boasted, and saboted — 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 bastioned turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bodies and donate. For points, the strongest plays are abides, abodes, adbots, adobes, baited, bandit, basted, bedsit, biased, bidets, boated, bodies, debits, and dobies — 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 150 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastioned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, baits, bands, based, beans, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abide, abode, adbot, adobe, bands, baned, based, bated, beads, bends, bides, bidet, binds, bodes, bonds, boned, debit, debts, dobes, dobie, 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 bastioned produces 190 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, bode, bods, bond, dabs, debs, debt, dibs, and dobe — 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 bastioned turns up 109 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, ate, bad, and ban. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, bod, 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 36 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastioned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, be, do, and id. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in bastioned plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bastioned 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.
bastioned 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 one sense for bastioned. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
bastioned is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastioned unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bastioned and botanised, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bastioned 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 bastioned produce 574 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 150 five-letter words, 190 four-letter words, 109 three-letter words and 36 two-letter words.