Hidden inside cabaret sit abreact, bearcat, and cabaret, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abreact, bearcat, and cabaret tie for the highest Scrabble score from cabaret at 11 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in cabaret: two come from rearranging its letters, and cabaret itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abreact, bearcat, and cabaret, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cabaret turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abater and carate, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cabaret. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater and react. For points, the strongest plays are acerb, barca, brace, bract, and caber — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cabaret produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bare, bear, beat, brat, care, and cart. For points, the strongest plays are carb and crab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cabaret turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cabaret. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 cabaret and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cabaret 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for cabaret. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cabaret is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cabaret unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abreact, bearcat, and cabaret, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cabaret 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 cabaret produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.