Hidden inside rebates sit beaters, berates, and rebates, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beaters, berates, and rebates tie for the highest Scrabble score from rebates at 9 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in rebates: two come from rearranging its letters, and rebates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beaters, berates, and rebates, 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 rebates turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, breast, and easter. For points, the strongest plays are barest, baster, beater, berate, berets, breast, rebase, rebate, and tabers — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rebates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bears, beast, beats, beers, brats, erase, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are abets, bares, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, beers, beets, beret, beset, betas, braes, brats, brees, saber, sabre, taber, and tabes — 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 rebates produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bare, bars, base, bats, bear, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, beer, bees, beet, best, beta, bets, brae, bras, brat, bree, rebs, sabe, stab, 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 rebates turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bee, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bee, bes, bet, bra, reb, sab, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rebates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 rebates 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.
rebates 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 five senses for rebates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
rebates is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rebates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are beaters, berates, and rebates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rebates 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 rebates produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.