cabby needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cabby is the highest-scoring word from cabby, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in cabby — and it is cabby itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cabby produces exactly one four-letter word: baby. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cabby turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bay and cab. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, and cay — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cabby. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay and by. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 cabby 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.
cabby 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 one sense for cabby. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cabby is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cabby unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cabby, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cabby 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 cabby produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.