Hidden inside crabmeats sit crabmeats and macabrest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 382 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crabmeats and macabrest tie for the highest Scrabble score from crabmeats at 15 points. The top 10 of 382 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in crabmeats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crabmeats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crabmeats and macabrest, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crabmeats. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is crabmeat, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crabmeats produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cameras. For points, the strongest plays are ambsace, cambers, crambes, macaber, macabre, and tambacs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crabmeats turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, braces, breast, camera, caters, creams, and master. For points, the strongest plays are camber, crambe, and tambac — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crabmeats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, beams, bears, beast, beats, brats, and cares. For points, the strongest plays are abeam, acerb, acmes, amber, ameba, barca, barms, beams, bemas, berms, brace, bract, bream, caber, camas, cames, carbs, crabs, crams, cream, embar, mabes, macer, maces, marcs, mercs, samba, and scram — 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 crabmeats produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, area, arms, arts, bare, bars, and base. For points, the strongest plays are acme, bams, barm, beam, bema, berm, cabs, came, cams, carb, crab, cram, mabe, mace, macs, marc, merc, scab, and scam — 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 crabmeats turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, arm, art, ate, bam, and bar. For points, the strongest plays are bam, cab, cam, and mac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crabmeats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, be, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in crabmeats plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crabmeats and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
crabmeats 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 one sense for crabmeats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
crabmeats is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crabmeats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crabmeats and macabrest, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crabmeats 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 crabmeats produce 382 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.