Hidden inside daubes sit abused and daubes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abused and daubes tie for the highest Scrabble score from daubes at 9 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in daubes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and daubes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abused. For points, the strongest plays are abused and daubes — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in daubes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse and based. For points, the strongest plays are based, bauds, beads, bused, daube, daubs, 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 daubes produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, base, beds, buds, sued, and used. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, baud, bead, beds, bedu, buds, dabs, daub, debs, and dubs — 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 daubes turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, bad, bed, bud, bus, due, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bud, dab, deb, and dub — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in daubes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, be, and us. 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 daubes 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.
daubes 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.
daubes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing daubes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abused and daubes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from daubes 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 daubes produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.