Hidden inside blather sit blather and halbert, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blather and halbert tie for the highest Scrabble score from blather at 12 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in blather: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blather itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blather and halbert, 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 blather turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breath. For points, the strongest plays are bather, bertha, blaher, breath, and herbal — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blather. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, alert, alter, bathe, earth, heart, and later. For points, the strongest plays are bathe, berth, and rehab — 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 blather produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare, bath, bear, beat, belt, and blah. For points, the strongest plays are baht, bath, beth, blah, and herb — 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 blather turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bah, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest play is bah — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blather. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, be, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 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 blather 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.
blather 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 1-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 blather. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
blather is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blather unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blather and halbert, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blather 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 blather produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.