Hidden inside ablutions sit ablutions, abutilons, and sublation, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 441 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ablutions, abutilons, and sublation tie for the highest Scrabble score from ablutions at 11 points. The top 10 of 441 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in ablutions: two come from rearranging its letters, and ablutions 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 ablutions, abutilons, and sublation, 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 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablutions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ablution, abutilon, bailouts, botulins, butanols, and taboulis, 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 ablutions produces 15 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 albinos, bailout, bastion, bonitas, botulin, butanol, oblasti, obtains, tabouli, tabulis, and unbolts, 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 ablutions turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insult. For points, the strongest plays are ablins, albino, baltis, basion, batons, bionts, biotas, blains, bloats, blunts, bonita, bonsai, boults, nubias, oblast, obtain, subito, sublot, tabuli, tabuns, and unbolt — 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 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablutions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, aunts, autos, bails, baits, blast, and boats. For points, the strongest plays are aboil, about, abuts, bails, baits, balti, basil, basin, baton, binal, bints, biont, biota, bison, blain, blast, blats, bloat, blots, blunt, boast, boats, boils, bolas, bolts, bolus, bonus, bosun, botas, boult, bouts, built, bunas, bunts, nabis, nubia, obias, obits, sabin, sabot, tabun, tabus, tsuba, tsubo, tubal, and tubas — 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 ablutions produces 160 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, anus, aunt, auto, bail, and bait. For points, the strongest plays are abut, albs, bail, bait, bals, bani, bans, bast, bats, bias, bins, bint, bios, bits, blat, blin, blot, boas, boat, boil, bola, bolt, bota, bots, bout, labs, libs, lobs, nabs, nibs, nobs, nubs, obas, obia, obis, obit, slab, slob, slub, snib, snob, snub, soba, stab, stob, stub, suba, buna, buns, bunt, bust, buts, isba, tabs, tabu, tuba, and tubs — 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 ablutions turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ban, bat, bit, bun, bus, and but. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, bal, ban, bas, bat, bin, bio, bis, bit, boa, bos, bot, bun, bus, but, lab, lib, lob, nab, nib, nob, nub, oba, obi, sab, sib, sob, sub, tab, and tub — 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ablutions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ablutions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ablutions 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.
ablutions 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 one sense for ablutions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ablutions is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ablutions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ablutions, abutilons, and sublation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ablutions 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 ablutions produce 441 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 160 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.