Hidden inside blabbers sit babblers, blabbers, and brabbles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. Short on board space? barbels, rabbles, and slabber match that same 11-point score in Scrabble while spending only seven letters each — efficient picks when the long play won't fit. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
babblers, blabbers, brabbles and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from blabbers at 11 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in blabbers: two come from rearranging its letters, and blabbers 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 babblers, blabbers, and brabbles, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blabbers produces 7 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 barbels, rabbles, and slabber, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blabbers turns up 9 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, barbel, barbes, and rabble, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blabbers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, bears, and laser. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including abbes, babel and babes.
Rearranging the letters in blabbers produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare and bars. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including abbe, babe and barb.
Unscrambling blabbers turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bar and bra. For points, the strongest play is ebb — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blabbers. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in blabbers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blabbers 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.
blabbers 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 3-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 blabbers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
blabbers is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blabbers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are babblers, blabbers, brabbles, barbels, rabbles, and slabber, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blabbers 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 blabbers produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.