Hidden inside statable sit abettals, statable, and tastable, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abettals, statable, and tastable tie for the highest Scrabble score from statable at 10 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in statable: two come from rearranging its letters, and statable itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abettals, statable, and tastable, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in statable produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with battles. For points, the strongest plays are abettal, ablates, battles, and tablets — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling statable turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, battle and latest. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including ablest, battle and tables.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beast, beats and belts. For points, 31 words tie at 7 points, including beast, beats and belts.
Rearranging the letters in statable produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, base and bats. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including able, base and bats.
Unscrambling statable turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat and bet. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including bat, bet and lab.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statable. 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.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in statable plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in statable and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
statable 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.
statable is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing statable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abettals, statable, and tastable, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from statable 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 statable produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.