Hidden inside tabbies sit babiest and tabbies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
babiest and tabbies tie for the highest Scrabble score from tabbies at 11 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tabbies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tabbies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are babiest and tabbies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tabbies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, beast, beats, and bites. For points, the strongest plays are abbes, babes, and bibes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tabbies produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, base and bats. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including abbe, babe and bibe.
Unscrambling tabbies turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bib and ebb — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tabbies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tabbies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tabbies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tabbies 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 three senses for tabbies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tabbies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tabbies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are babiest and tabbies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tabbies 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 tabbies produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.