Hidden inside drabbest sit drabbest and drabbets, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drabbest and drabbets tie for the highest Scrabble score from drabbest at 13 points. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in drabbest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drabbest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drabbest and drabbets, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drabbest produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stabbed. For points, the strongest plays are dabbers, drabbet, and stabbed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drabbest turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, beards and breads. For points, the strongest plays are barbed, dabber, sabbed, and tabbed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drabbest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with based, beard and bears. For points, the strongest plays are abbes, babes, barbe, and barbs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drabbest produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bade and bare. For points, the strongest plays are abbe, babe, barb, and ebbs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drabbest turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, the strongest play is ebb — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drabbest. 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.
Swap a single tile in drabbest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
drabbest 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.
drabbest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drabbest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drabbest and drabbets, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drabbest 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 drabbest produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.