ballasted needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 294 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ballasted is the highest-scoring word from ballasted, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 294 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ballasted — and it is ballasted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ballasted produces exactly one eight-letter word: ballades. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ballasted produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baldest, ballets, blasted, and stalled. For points, the strongest plays are ablated, baldest, ballade, ballads, ballsed, blasted, datable, and stabled — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ballasted turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, ballet, blades, labels, lasted, and tables. For points, the strongest plays are abased, abated, ballad, balled, basted, blades, and tabled — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ballasted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with balls, based, beast, beats, bells, belts, and blade. For points, the strongest plays are abled, baaed, balds, baled, based, bated, beads, blade, debts, and sabed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ballasted produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bade, bald, ball, base, bats, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bald, bead, beds, bled, dabs, debs, and debt — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ballasted turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, all, ate, bad, bat, bed, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, dab, and deb — each worth 6 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 ballasted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ballasted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ballasted 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.
ballasted 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ballasted is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ballasted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ballasted, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ballasted 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 ballasted produce 294 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.