Hidden inside blames sit ambles and blames, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MABSLE, BALMES or BESALM and you get the same 6 letters as BLAMES: so the words from BLAMES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ambles and blames tie for the highest Scrabble score from blames at 10 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in blames: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blames itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blames. For points, the strongest plays are ambles and blames — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beams, blame and lambs. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including beams, blame and lambs.
Rearranging the letters in blames produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, base and beam. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including beam, lamb and balm.
Unscrambling blames turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bam, lab, and sea. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, be, and me. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
15 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in blames plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blames and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
blames 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 six senses for blames. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
blames is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blames unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ambles and blames, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blames 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 blames produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.