Hidden inside rabies sit braise and rabies, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
braise and rabies tie for the highest Scrabble score from rabies at 8 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in rabies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rabies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rabies. For points, the strongest plays are braise and rabies — 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rabies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bears and raise. For points, the strongest plays are abris, bares, baser, bears, biers, birse, braes, bries, rabis, ribes, saber, sabir, and sabre — 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 rabies produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, bare, bars, base, bear, bras, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are abri, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bear, bias, bier, bise, brae, bras, brie, bris, isba, rabi, rebs, ribs, and sabe — 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 rabies turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, bar, bra, ear, era, and rib. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bes, bis, bra, reb, rib, sab, and sib — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rabies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — 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 rabies 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.
rabies 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 1-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 rabies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
rabies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rabies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are braise and rabies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rabies 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 rabies produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.