Hidden inside rebuttals sit brutalest, rebuttals, and trustable, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 503 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brutalest, rebuttals, and trustable tie for the highest Scrabble score from rebuttals at 11 points. The top 10 of 503 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in rebuttals: two come from rearranging its letters, and rebuttals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brutalest, rebuttals, and trustable, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rebuttals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abutters, baluster, battlers, blatters, brattles, rebuttal, and rustable, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rebuttals produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with battles, butlers, startle, subtler, and turtles. For points, the strongest plays are abutter, arbutes, batters, battler, battles, battues, blaster, blatter, bluster, brattle, brutest, bursate, bustler, butlers, buttals, butters, buttles, labrets, stabler, sublate, subtler, and tablets — 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 rebuttals turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, alerts, alters, barest, battle, bluest, and breast. For points, the strongest plays are ablest, abuser, arbute, balers, barest, baster, batter, battle, battue, beauts, bettas, blares, blears, bleats, bluest, bluets, blurts, breast, brutal, brutes, burets, bursae, bursal, buster, bustle, butler, butles, butter, buttes, buttle, labret, rebuts, rubels, rubles, sabler, stable, suable, sublet, subtle, tabers, tables, tablet, tubate, tubers, and usable — 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 139 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rebuttals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, abuse, alert, alter, bears, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abler, ables, abuse, abuts, baler, bales, bares, baser, baste, bates, batts, battu, beals, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, belts, betas, betta, blare, blase, blast, blate, blats, blear, bleat, blest, blets, bluer, blues, bluet, blurs, blurt, braes, brats, brute, bruts, buras, buret, burls, bursa, burse, burst, butes, butle, butte, butts, lubes, rebus, rebut, rubel, rubes, ruble, saber, sable, sabre, slurb, suber, taber, tabes, table, tabus, tsuba, tubae, tubal, tubas, tuber, and tubes — 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 rebuttals produces 146 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, arts, bare, bars, base, bats, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, abut, albs, arbs, baes, bale, bals, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, batt, beal, bear, beat, beau, bels, belt, best, beta, bets, blae, blat, blet, blue, blur, brae, bras, brat, tabs, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs, urbs, brut, bura, burl, burs, bust, bute, buts, butt, labs, lube, rebs, rube, rubs, sabe, slab, slub, stab, stub, and suba — 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 rebuttals turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bet, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, arb, bae, bal, bar, bas, bat, bel, bes, bet, bra, bur, bus, but, lab, reb, rub, sab, sub, tab, tub, and urb — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rebuttals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, and us. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in rebuttals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rebuttals and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
rebuttals 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 rebuttals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
rebuttals is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rebuttals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brutalest, rebuttals, and trustable, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rebuttals 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 rebuttals produce 503 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 139 five-letter words, 146 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.