Hidden inside orbitals sit orbitals and strobila, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 357 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
orbitals and strobila tie for the highest Scrabble score from orbitals at 10 points. The top 10 of 357 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in orbitals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and orbitals 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 orbitals and strobila, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in orbitals produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bailors, borstal, bristol, oblasti, orbital, strobil, and tribals, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling orbitals turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, labors, sailor, trails, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, bailor, baltis, biotas, bistro, bloats, boarts, borals, brails, brasil, broast, broils, isobar, labors, libras, oblast, orbits, tabors, and tribal — 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in orbitals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, bails, baits, blast, boats, boils, and brats. For points, the strongest plays are aboil, abort, abris, bails, baits, balti, basil, biota, birls, biros, blast, blats, bloat, blots, boars, boart, boast, boats, boils, bolar, bolas, bolts, boral, boras, borts, botas, brail, brats, brios, brits, broil, labor, libra, lobar, obias, obits, orbit, rabis, sabir, sabot, and tabor — 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 orbitals produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, arts, bail, bait, bars, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are abri, albs, arbs, bail, bait, bals, bars, bast, bats, bias, bios, birl, biro, bits, blat, blot, boar, boas, boat, boil, bola, bolt, bora, bort, bota, bots, bras, brat, brio, bris, brit, bros, labs, libs, lobs, obas, obia, obis, obit, orbs, rabi, ribs, robs, slab, slob, soba, sorb, stab, stob, isba, and tabs — 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 orbitals turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, bar, bat, bit, bra, and its. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, arb, bal, bar, bas, bat, bio, bis, bit, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, lab, lib, lob, oba, obi, orb, rib, rob, sab, sib, sob, and tab — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in orbitals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — 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 orbitals 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.
orbitals 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 two senses for orbitals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
orbitals is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing orbitals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are orbitals and strobila, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from orbitals 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 orbitals produce 357 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.