Hidden inside saboteurs sit abortuses and saboteurs, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 550 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abortuses and saboteurs tie for the highest Scrabble score from saboteurs at 11 points. The top 10 of 550 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in saboteurs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and saboteurs 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 abortuses and saboteurs, 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 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saboteurs. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abstruse, boasters, robustas, saboteur, and sorbates, 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 saboteurs produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breasts and sourest. For points, the strongest plays are abortus, abusers, arbutes, basters, boaster, boaters, borates, bourses, breasts, broasts, bursate, busters, obtuser, rebatos, robusta, rubasse, rubatos, sorbate, sorbets, strobes, surbase, and tabours — 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 saboteurs turns up 95 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, abuses, assure, barest, beasts, breast, and bursts. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, abuser, abuses, arbute, barest, basest, basser, basset, baster, bastes, beasts, beauts, besots, boarts, boasts, boater, borate, boreas, bosser, bourse, bouses, breast, broast, broses, brutes, burets, bursae, bursas, burses, bursts, buster, buteos, obtuse, rebato, rebuts, robust, rubato, sabers, sabots, sabres, sobers, sorbet, strobe, subers, subsea, subset, tabers, tabors, tabour, tsubas, tsubos, tubers, and turbos — 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 152 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saboteurs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, abuse, autos, bases, bears, and beast. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abort, about, abuse, abuts, bares, baser, bases, basso, baste, basts, bates, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, besot, bests, betas, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, bores, borts, botas, bouse, bouts, braes, brass, brats, brose, brute, bruts, buras, buret, bursa, burse, burst, buses, busts, buteo, butes, rebus, rebut, robes, rubes, saber, sabes, sabot, sabre, sobas, sober, sorbs, stabs, stobs, stubs, subas, suber, taber, tabes, tabor, tabus, tsuba, tsubo, tubae, tubas, tuber, tubes, and turbo — 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 saboteurs produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto, bare, bars, base, bass, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abut, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bass, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, beau, best, beta, bets, boar, boas, boat, bora, bore, bort, boss, bota, bots, bout, brae, bras, brat, bros, obas, obes, orbs, rebs, robe, robs, rube, rubs, sabe, sabs, soba, sobs, sorb, stab, stob, stub, suba, subs, brut, bura, burs, buss, bust, bute, buts, tabs, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs, and urbs — 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 saboteurs turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bes, bet, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, bur, bus, but, oba, obe, orb, reb, rob, rub, sab, sob, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saboteurs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in saboteurs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in saboteurs 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.
saboteurs 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 saboteurs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
saboteurs is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saboteurs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abortuses and saboteurs, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saboteurs 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 saboteurs produce 550 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 95 six-letter words, 152 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.