abbreviation needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 479 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abbreviation is the highest-scoring word from abbreviation, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 479 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in abbreviation — and it is abbreviation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abbreviation turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bivariate and vibration, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abbreviation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abortive and bevatron, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abbreviation produces 29 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are obviate, vibrant, vibrate, vibrato, and vibrion, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abbreviation turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invite, naiver, native, rabbit, ribbon, tavern, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are bovine, obvert, and vibrio — 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 107 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abbreviation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, above, boner, borne, brain, brave, and bravo. For points, the strongest plays are above, bevor, brava, brave, bravi, and bravo — 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 abbreviation produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bait, bare, barn, bean, bear, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are verb and vibe — 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 abbreviation turns up 96 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 bib, bob, and ebb — 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abbreviation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, be, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in abbreviation plus one additional letter.
abbreviation 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 4-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 abbreviation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
abbreviation is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abbreviation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abbreviation, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abbreviation 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 abbreviation produce 479 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 107 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.