potable needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PLEBOAT, PATOBLE or POELTAB and you get the same 7 letters as POTABLE: so the words from POTABLE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
potable is the highest-scoring word from potable, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in potable — and it is potable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling potable turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boatel, lobate, oblate, and pelota, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leapt, plate, and table. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including leapt, plate and table.
Rearranging the letters in potable produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, beat and belt. For points, the strongest play is pleb — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling potable turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate and bat. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, and to. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in potable plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in potable 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.
potable 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 potable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
potable is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing potable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is potable, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from potable 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 potable produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.