tabular needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tabular is the highest-scoring word from tabular, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tabular — and it is tabular itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tabular. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including blurt, labra and rabat.
Rearranging the letters in tabular produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brat. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including brat, abut and alba.
Unscrambling tabular turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, bar and bat. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bra.
Swap a single tile in tabular 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.
tabular 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 two senses for tabular. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tabular is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tabular unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tabular, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tabular 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 tabular produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.