Hidden inside sab sit abs, bas, and sab, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abs, bas, and sab tie for the highest Scrabble score from sab at 5 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in sab: two come from rearranging its letters, and sab itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abs, bas, and sab, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
43 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in sab plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sab and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
sab 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.
sab is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sab unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abs, bas, and sab, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sab 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 sab produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.