Hidden inside blankets sit blankest and blankets, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 278 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blankest and blankets tie for the highest Scrabble score from blankets at 14 points. The top 10 of 278 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in blankets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blankets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blankets. For points, the strongest plays are blankest and blankets — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in blankets produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: blanket, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling blankets turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, ankles, basket, and tables. For points, the strongest plays are basket, blanks, and bleaks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blankets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ankle, bakes, banks, beans, beast, beats, and belts. For points, the strongest plays are bakes, balks, banks, beaks, blank, and bleak — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in blankets produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ants, bake, bank, bans, base, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are bake, balk, bank, bask, beak, and kabs — 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 blankets turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ask, ate, ban, bat, bet, and eat. 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blankets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and be. 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in blankets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blankets 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.
blankets 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 blankets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
blankets is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blankets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blankest and blankets, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blankets 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 blankets produce 278 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.