Hidden inside urbanites sit antibuser, braunites, and urbanites, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 700 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antibuser, braunites, and urbanites tie for the highest Scrabble score from urbanites at 11 points. The top 10 of 700 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in urbanites: two come from rearranging its letters, and urbanites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antibuser, braunites, and urbanites, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urbanites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with urinates. For points, the strongest plays are banister, barniest, braunite, tribunes, turbines, urbanest, urbanise, urbanist, and urbanite — 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 urbanites produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastier, natures, and urinate. For points, the strongest plays are arbutes, baiters, banters, banties, barites, basinet, brisant, brunets, bunters, burnets, burnies, bursate, bustier, butanes, inburst, nutbars, rebaits, rubiest, suberin, subrent, terbias, tribune, turbans, turbine, and unbears — 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 urbanites turns up 113 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, brains, breast, buries, busier, nature, and rabies. For points, the strongest plays are absent, abuser, airbus, arbute, bairns, baiter, banter, barest, barite, baster, beauts, bestir, binate, biners, bister, bistre, biters, brains, braise, brants, breast, brents, brines, bruins, bruise, bruits, brunet, brunts, brutes, bunter, burans, burets, buries, burins, burnet, burnie, bursae, busier, buster, butane, nubias, nutbar, rabies, rebait, rebuts, rubati, rubies, sabine, subnet, tabers, tabuns, terbia, tribes, tubers, turban, unbars, unbear, urbane, and urbias — 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 195 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urbanites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, aunts, baits, barns, beans, bears, and beast. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abris, abuse, abuts, bairn, baits, banes, bares, barns, baser, basin, baste, bates, beans, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, bents, betas, biers, biner, bines, bints, birse, biter, bites, braes, brain, brans, brant, brats, brens, brent, bries, brine, brins, brits, bruin, bruit, brunt, brute, bruts, bunas, bunts, buran, buras, buret, burin, burns, burnt, bursa, burse, burst, butes, nabes, nabis, nubia, rabis, rebus, rebut, ribes, rubes, saber, sabin, sabir, sabre, suber, taber, tabes, tabun, tabus, tribe, tsuba, tubae, tubas, tuber, tubes, unbar, urban, and urbia — 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 urbanites produces 195 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, anus, arts, aunt, bait, and bans. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abri, abut, arbs, baes, bait, bane, bani, bans, bare, barn, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bean, bear, beat, beau, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, bias, bier, bine, bins, bint, bise, bite, bits, brae, bran, bras, brat, bren, brie, brin, bris, brit, nabe, nabs, nebs, nibs, nubs, rabi, rebs, ribs, rube, rubs, sabe, snib, snub, stab, stub, suba, tabs, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs, unbe, urbs, brut, buna, buns, bunt, bura, burn, burs, bust, bute, buts, and isba — 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 urbanites turns up 107 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ate, ban, and bar. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, ban, bar, bas, bat, ben, bes, bet, bin, bis, bit, bra, bun, bur, bus, but, nab, neb, nib, nub, reb, rib, rub, sab, sib, sub, 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urbanites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, be, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in urbanites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in urbanites 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.
urbanites 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.
urbanites is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing urbanites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antibuser, braunites, and urbanites, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from urbanites 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 urbanites produce 700 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 113 six-letter words, 195 five-letter words, 195 four-letter words, 107 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.