Unscramble ABETS to get 65 words. ABETS itself is a real word: 7 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. It has 7 anagrams at 7 points each, among them BASTE, BATES and BEAST. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
A1B34E1T1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ABETS by length: 8 with 5 letters, 23 with 4, 22 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of ABETS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AB · ending in TS · all 5-letter words
What ABETS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ABETS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABETS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 65) | 60 | 65 | 52 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
8 of the 65 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BAES, BAE, BES, TASE, ATS, EST, TES and TE. 5 of the 65 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BESAT, TAES, EAS, EA and ST.
These 12 words take every letter of ABETS plus a single extra one.