Hidden inside labile sit alible, labile, and liable, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alible, labile, and liable tie for the highest Scrabble score from labile at 8 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in labile: two come from rearranging its letters, and labile itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alible, labile, and liable, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in labile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with label. For points, the strongest plays are label and libel — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in labile produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, ball, bell, and bill. For points, the strongest plays are able, bail, bale, ball, beal, bell, bile, bill, and blae — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling labile turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ill, lab, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are alb, bae, bal, bel, lab, and lib — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in labile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — 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 labile 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.
labile 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 two senses for labile. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
labile is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing labile unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alible, labile, and liable, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from labile 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 labile produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.