blank needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blank is the highest-scoring word from blank, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in blank — and it is blank itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blank produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bank. For points, the strongest plays are balk and bank — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling blank turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ban and lab. For points, the strongest play is kab — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blank. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in blank plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blank 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.
blank 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 nine senses for blank. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
blank is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blank unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blank, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blank 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 blank produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.