Hidden inside baubles sit baubles and bubales, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
baubles and bubales tie for the highest Scrabble score from baubles at 11 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in baubles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and baubles 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 baubles and bubales, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling baubles 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 babels, babuls, bauble and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baubles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse and blues. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including abbes, babel and babes.
Rearranging the letters in baubles produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, base and blue. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including abbe, babe and babu.
Unscrambling baubles turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, lab and sea. For points, the strongest plays are bub and ebb — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baubles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in baubles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in baubles 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.
baubles 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for baubles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
baubles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing baubles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are baubles and bubales, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from baubles 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 baubles produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.