Hidden inside probes sit probes and rebops, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
probes and rebops tie for the highest Scrabble score from probes at 10 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in probes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and probes 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 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with robes, ropes, and sober. 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 probes produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore, pose, pros, reps, robe, robs, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are 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 probes turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pro, rep, and rob. For points, the strongest play is bop — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, bo, op, 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.
Swap a single tile in probes 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.
probes 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 six senses for probes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
probes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing probes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are probes and rebops, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from probes 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 probes produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.