likable needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
likable is the highest-scoring word from likable, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in likable — and it is likable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling likable turns up 3 six-letter words. 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.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alike and label. For points, the strongest plays are bleak and kibla — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in likable produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and bake. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including bake, bike and balk.
Unscrambling likable turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ill, lab, and lie. For points, the strongest play is kab — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in likable plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in likable and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
likable 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 likable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
likable is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing likable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is likable, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from likable 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 likable produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.