databases needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
databases is the highest-scoring word from databases, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in databases — and it is databases itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling databases produces exactly one eight-letter word: database. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling databases turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beasts. For points, the strongest plays are abased, abated, badass, 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in databases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with based, bases, beast, beats, bests, 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 databases produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, base, bass, bats, beat, beds, and best. 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 databases turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ass, ate, bad, bat, bed, and bet. 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 databases. 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.
Swap a single tile in databases 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.
databases 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.
databases is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing databases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is databases, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from databases 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 databases produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.