Hidden inside tables sit ablest, bleats, stable and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ablest, bleats, stable and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tables at 8 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in tables: three come from rearranging its letters, and tables itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest and tables. For points, the strongest plays are ablest, bleats, stable, and tables — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tables. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beast, beats and belts. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including beast, beats and belts.
Rearranging the letters in tables produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, base and bats. For points, 25 words tie at 6 points, including able, base and bats.
Unscrambling tables turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat and bet. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including bat, bet and lab.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tables. 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.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tables plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tables and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tables 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 eight senses for tables. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tables is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tables unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ablest, bleats, stable, and tables, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tables 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 tables produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.