probates 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, 430 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
probates is the highest-scoring word from probates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 430 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in probates — and it is probates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in probates 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 probate and saprobe, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling probates turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, barest, breast, operas, and poster. For points, the strongest plays are probes and rebops — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, bears, beast, beats, boats, brats, and opera. For points, the strongest plays are probe, probs, and rebop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in probates produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, bare, bars, base, bats, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are baps, bops, and prob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling probates turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bo, op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in probates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in probates 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.
probates 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 four senses for probates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
probates is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing probates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is probates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from probates 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 probates produce 430 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.