Hidden inside bastions sit antiboss and bastions, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 208 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antiboss and bastions tie for the highest Scrabble score from bastions at 10 points. The top 10 of 208 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in bastions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bastions 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 antiboss and bastions, 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 bastions produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are basions, bastion, bonitas, bonsais, 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 bastions turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saints and stains. For points, the strongest plays are basins, basion, batons, bionts, biotas, bisons, boasts, bonita, bonsai, obtain, sabins, and sabots — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, basis, boats, saint, stabs, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are baits, basin, basis, bassi, basso, basts, baton, bints, biont, biota, bison, boast, boats, botas, isbas, nabis, obias, obits, sabin, sabot, snibs, snobs, sobas, stabs, and stobs — 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 bastions produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bait, bans, bass, bats, bits, and boat. For points, the strongest plays are bait, bani, bans, bass, bast, bats, bias, bins, bint, bios, bits, boas, boat, boss, bota, bots, isba, nabs, nibs, nobs, obas, obia, obis, obit, sabs, sibs, snib, snob, soba, sobs, 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 bastions turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ban, bat, bit, its, and not. 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 bastions. 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 bastions 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.
bastions 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 bastions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bastions is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antiboss and bastions, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bastions 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 bastions produce 208 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.