Hidden inside bistables sit bistables and slabbiest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 336 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bistables and slabbiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from bistables at 13 points. The top 10 of 336 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in bistables: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bistables 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 bistables and slabbiest, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bistables. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bistable and tabbises, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bistables produces 15 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 babiest, bibless, bitable, and tabbies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bistables turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, aisles and babies. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including babies, bibles and abbess.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bistables. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, bails and baits. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including bible, abbes and babel.
Rearranging the letters in bistables produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and bait. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including abbe, babe and bibe.
Unscrambling bistables turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and bat. For points, the strongest plays are bib and ebb — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bistables. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
bistables is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
bistables is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bistables unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bistables and slabbiest, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bistables 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 bistables produce 336 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.