Hidden inside subaltern sit subaltern and unstabler, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 654 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
subaltern and unstabler tie for the highest Scrabble score from subaltern at 11 points. The top 10 of 654 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in subaltern: one comes from rearranging its letters, and subaltern 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 subaltern and unstabler, 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 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subaltern. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abluents, baluster, rustable, turnable, unstable, and urbanest, 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 subaltern produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with butlers, natures, and subtler. For points, the strongest plays are abluent, arbutes, banters, blaster, blunter, bluster, brunets, bunters, burnets, bursate, bustler, butanes, butlers, labrets, nebular, nebulas, nutbars, slurban, stabler, sublate, subrent, subtler, sunbelt, tunable, turbans, unbales, unbears, unbelts, and unblest — 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 subaltern turns up 102 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, alerts, alters, barest, bluest, breast, and brutal. For points, the strongest plays are ablest, absent, abuser, arbute, balers, banter, barest, baster, beauts, blares, blears, bleats, bluest, bluets, blunts, blurts, brants, breast, brents, brunet, brunts, brutal, brutes, bunter, burans, burets, burnet, bursae, bursal, buster, bustle, butane, butler, butles, labret, nebula, nutbar, rebuts, rubels, rubles, sabler, stable, suable, sublet, subnet, subtle, tabers, tables, tabuns, tubers, turban, unable, unbale, unbars, unbear, unbelt, urbane, 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 186 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subaltern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, abuse, alert, alter, aunts, barns, and beans. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abler, ables, abuse, abuts, baler, bales, banes, bares, barns, baser, baste, bates, beals, beans, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, belts, bents, betas, blare, blase, blast, blate, blats, blear, bleat, blent, blest, blets, bluer, blues, bluet, blunt, blurs, blurt, braes, brans, brant, brats, brens, brent, brunt, brute, bruts, bunas, bunts, buran, buras, buret, burls, burns, burnt, bursa, burse, burst, butes, butle, lubes, nabes, rebus, rebut, rubel, rubes, ruble, saber, sable, sabre, slurb, suber, taber, tabes, table, tabun, tabus, tsuba, tubae, tubal, tubas, tuber, tubes, unbar, and urban — 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 subaltern produces 196 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ants, anus, arts, aunt, bans, and bare. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, abut, albs, arbs, baes, bale, bals, bane, bans, bare, barn, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, beal, bean, bear, beat, beau, bels, belt, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, blae, blat, blet, blue, blur, brae, bran, bras, brat, bren, labs, lube, nabe, nabs, nebs, nubs, rebs, rube, rubs, sabe, slab, slub, snub, stab, stub, suba, tabs, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs, unbe, urbs, brut, buna, buns, bunt, bura, burl, burn, burs, bust, bute, and buts — 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 subaltern turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ban, bar, and bat. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, arb, bae, bal, ban, bar, bas, bat, bel, ben, bes, bet, bra, bun, bur, bus, but, lab, nab, neb, nub, 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subaltern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, 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 subaltern plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in subaltern 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.
subaltern 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 4-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 subaltern. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
subaltern is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing subaltern unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are subaltern and unstabler, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from subaltern 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 subaltern produce 654 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 102 six-letter words, 186 five-letter words, 196 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.