ablates 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, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ablates is the highest-scoring word from ablates, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ablates — and it is ablates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ablates turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest and tables. For points, the strongest plays are abates, ablate, ablest, basalt, bleats, stable, tablas, and tables — 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beast, beats, belts, blast, blest, least, and steal. For points, the strongest plays are abase, abate, abets, ables, albas, baals, balas, bales, balsa, basal, baste, bates, beals, beast, beats, belts, betas, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blest, blets, sabal, sable, tabes, tabla, 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 ablates produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, base, bats, beat, belt, best, and bets. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abet, able, alba, albs, baal, baas, baes, bale, bals, base, bast, bate, bats, beal, beat, bels, belt, best, beta, bets, blae, blat, blet, labs, sabe, slab, stab, and tabs — 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 ablates turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat, bet, eat, lab, let, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, alb, baa, bae, bal, bas, bat, bel, bes, bet, lab, sab, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, 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 ablates 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.
ablates 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 two senses for ablates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ablates is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ablates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ablates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ablates 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 ablates produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.