Hidden inside casabas sit casabas and cassaba, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
casabas and cassaba tie for the highest Scrabble score from casabas at 11 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in casabas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and casabas 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 casabas and cassaba, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in casabas. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abaca and scabs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in casabas produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bass and cabs. For points, the strongest plays are cabs and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in casabas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in casabas 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.
casabas 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 casabas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
casabas is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing casabas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are casabas and cassaba, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from casabas 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 casabas produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.