tablature needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tablature is the highest-scoring word from tablature, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tablature — and it is tablature itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tablature. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rebuttal and tabulate, 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 tablature produces 13 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 abettal, abuttal, abutter, batteau, battler, blatter, brattle, ratable, tabaret, tableau, and tabular, 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 tablature turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with battle, brutal, butler, butter, and turtle. For points, the strongest plays are abater, ablate, ablaut, arable, arbute, bateau, batter, battle, battue, brutal, butler, butter, buttle, labret, tablet, and tubate — 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 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tablature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, alert, altar, alter, bluer, later, and latte. For points, the strongest plays are abate, abler, baler, battu, beaut, betta, blare, blate, blear, bleat, bluer, bluet, blurt, brute, buret, butle, butte, labra, rabat, rebut, rubel, ruble, taber, tabla, table, tubae, tubal, and tuber — 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 tablature produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, area, bare, bear, beat, belt, and blue. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, abut, alba, baal, bale, bare, bate, batt, beal, bear, beat, beau, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet, blue, blur, brae, brat, brut, bura, burl, bute, butt, lube, rube, tabu, tuba, and tube — 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 tablature turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bet, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are aba, alb, arb, baa, bae, bal, bar, bat, bel, bet, bra, bur, but, lab, reb, rub, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tablature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and be. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tablature plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tablature 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.
tablature 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for tablature. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tablature is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tablature unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tablature, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tablature 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 tablature produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.