Hidden inside marble sit ambler, blamer, lamber and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EMBLAR, MARELB or BLAREM and you get the same 6 letters as MARBLE: so the words from MARBLE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ambler, blamer, lamber and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from marble at 10 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in marble: four come from rearranging its letters, and marble 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 ambler, blamer, lamber and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marble. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, blame, and lamer. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including blame, amber and amble.
Rearranging the letters in marble produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare and beam. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including beam, lamb and balm.
Unscrambling marble turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and bam. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marble. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, be, and me. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
16 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in marble plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in marble 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.
marble 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 four senses for marble. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
marble is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marble unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ambler, blamer, lamber, marble, and ramble, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marble 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 marble produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.