database needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
database is the highest-scoring word from database, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in database — and it is database itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling database turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abased, abated, and basted, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in database. If a familiar word is all you need, start with based, beast, beats, dates, and debts. For points, the strongest plays are baaed, based, bated, beads, debts, and sabed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in database produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, base, bats, beat, beds, best, and bets. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bead, beds, dabs, debs, and debt — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling database turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate, bad, bat, bed, bet, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, dab, and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in database. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, 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.
database 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 1-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 database. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
database is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing database unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is database, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from database 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 database produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.