sabotages needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sabotages is the highest-scoring word from sabotages, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sabotages — and it is sabotages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sabotages produces exactly one eight-letter word: sabotage. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sabotages produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bagasse and seabags, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sabotages turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beasts and stages. For points, the strongest plays are bagass and seabag — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sabotages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bases, beast and beats. For points, the strongest plays are begat and begot — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sabotages produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, bags and base. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including bags, begs and bogs.
Unscrambling sabotages turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ass. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bag, beg and bog.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sabotages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in sabotages 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.
sabotages 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 two senses for sabotages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sabotages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sabotages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sabotages, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sabotages 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 sabotages produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.