abridgement needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1073 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abridgement is the highest-scoring word from abridgement, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1073 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in abridgement — and it is abridgement itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abridgement produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is abridgment, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abridgement turns up 11 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is debarment, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abridgement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breeding, dreaming, and remained. For points, the strongest play is begrimed — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abridgement produces 127 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bearing, beating, bedtime, granted, meeting, reading, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are beadmen, beaming, bedeman, bedmate, bedtime, begrime, bemired, benamed, berimed, berming, birdman, birdmen, breamed, gambier, and megabit — 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 abridgement turns up 238 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, agreed, banged, beaten, bridge, danger, and daring. For points, the strongest plays are badmen, bagmen, beamed, bedamn, begrim, bermed, bregma, gambir, and gambit — 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 233 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abridgement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, agent, agree, aimed, aired, anger, and armed. For points, the strongest plays are bedim, begem, embed, gambe, and imbed — 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 abridgement produces 250 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, amen, bade, bait, band, bang, and bare. For points, the strongest play is gamb — 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 abridgement turns up 132 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, aim, air, and, ant, and are. For points, the strongest plays are bam and mib — 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 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abridgement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, at, be, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bi, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in abridgement plus one additional letter.
abridgement 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 abridgement. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
abridgement is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abridgement unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abridgement, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abridgement 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 abridgement produce 1073 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 11 nine-letter words, 47 eight-letter words, 127 seven-letter words, 238 six-letter words, 233 five-letter words, 250 four-letter words, 132 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.