Hidden inside timbale sit bimetal, limbate, and timbale, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bimetal, limbate, and timbale tie for the highest Scrabble score from timbale at 11 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in timbale: two come from rearranging its letters, and timbale 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 bimetal, limbate, and timbale, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling timbale turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lambie and timbal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in timbale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blame, email, metal, and table. For points, the strongest plays are ambit, amble, blame, and limba — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in timbale produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, bait, beam, beat, belt, and bite. For points, the strongest plays are balm, beam, bema, bima, blam, iamb, lamb, limb, and mabe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling timbale turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, bam, bat, bet, bit, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are bam and mib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in timbale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, be, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bi, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in timbale 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.
timbale 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 timbale. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
timbale is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing timbale unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bimetal, limbate, and timbale, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from timbale 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 timbale produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.