confab needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confab is the highest-scoring word from confab, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in confab — and it is confab itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confab turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ban, cab and can. For points, the strongest plays are caf, fab, and fob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confab. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, no, of, and on. For points, the strongest plays are fa and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in confab plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in confab 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.
confab 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 confab. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
confab is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confab unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confab, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confab 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 confab produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.