Hidden inside table sit blate, bleat, and table, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blate, bleat, and table tie for the highest Scrabble score from table at 7 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in table: two come from rearranging its letters, and table itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with table. For points, the strongest plays are blate, bleat, and table — 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 table produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, beat, belt, late, and tale. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, bale, bate, beal, beat, belt, beta, blae, blat, and blet — 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 table turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat, bet, eat, lab, let, and tab. For points, the strongest plays are alb, bae, bal, bat, bel, bet, lab, and tab — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in table. 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.
Swap a single tile in table and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
table 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 table. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
table is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing table unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blate, bleat, and table, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from table 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 table produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.