ballot needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ballot is the highest-scoring word from ballot, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in ballot — and it is ballot itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ballot. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bloat, 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 ballot produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ball, boat, tall, and toll. For points, the strongest plays are ball, blat, blot, boat, bola, boll, bolt, and bota — 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 ballot turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, bat, lab, lot, and tab. For points, the strongest plays are alb, bal, bat, boa, bot, lab, lob, oba, and tab — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ballot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ballot 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.
ballot 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 ballot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ballot is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ballot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ballot, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ballot 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 ballot produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.