mastabas needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mastabas is the highest-scoring word from mastabas, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mastabas — and it is mastabas itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mastabas produces exactly one seven-letter word: mastaba. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mastabas produces exactly one six-letter word: sambas. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mastabas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stabs. For points, the strongest play is samba — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mastabas produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bass, bats and mass. For points, the strongest play is bams — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mastabas turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, bam and bat. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mastabas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, and ma — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mastabas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mastabas 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.
mastabas 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for mastabas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mastabas is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mastabas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mastabas, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mastabas 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 mastabas produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.