Hidden inside bases sit bases and sabes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bases and sabes tie for the highest Scrabble score from bases at 7 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in bases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bases. For points, the strongest plays are bases and sabes — 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 bases produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with base, bass, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are baes, base, bass, sabe, and sabs — 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 bases turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass and sea. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bae, bas, bes, and sab — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 bases 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.
bases 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bases is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bases and sabes, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bases 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 bases produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.