Hidden inside baues sit abuse and beaus, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
BAUES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ABUSE and BEAUS.
abuse and beaus tie for the highest Scrabble score from baues at 7 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse. For points, the strongest plays are abuse and beaus — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling baues turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, sea, sub, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bae, bas, bes, bus, sab, and sub — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baues. 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.
Swap a single tile in baues and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abuse and beaus, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from baues 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 baues produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.