baselines needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
baselines is the highest-scoring word from baselines, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in baselines — and it is baselines itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baselines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesbians. For points, the strongest plays are baseline, lesbians, seisable, and sensible — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in baselines produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesbian. For points, the strongest plays are abseils, bailees, baleens, beanies, enables, lesbian, and sabines — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling baselines turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens, and leases. For points, the strongest plays are abeles, ablins, abseil, bailee, baleen, basils, basins, beanie, belies, biases, blains, enable, lebens, sabine, sabins, and sables — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baselines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, bails, bases, basis, beans, and bless. For points, the strongest plays are abele, ables, bails, bales, banes, bases, basil, basin, basis, bassi, beals, beans, belie, benes, beses, biles, binal, bines, bises, blain, blase, bless, bliss, isbas, leben, nabes, nabis, sabes, sabin, sable, slabs, and snibs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in baselines produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, bans, base, bass, bean, and been. For points, the strongest plays are able, albs, baes, bail, bale, bals, bane, bani, bans, base, bass, beal, bean, been, bees, bels, bene, bens, bias, bile, bine, bins, bise, blae, blin, isba, labs, libs, nabe, nabs, nebs, nibs, sabe, sabs, sibs, slab, and snib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling baselines turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ban, bee, lab, lie, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, bae, bal, ban, bas, bee, bel, ben, bes, bin, bis, lab, lib, nab, neb, nib, sab, and sib — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baselines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, be, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in baselines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in baselines and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
baselines 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 three senses for baselines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
baselines is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing baselines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is baselines, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from baselines 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 baselines produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.