18 words come out when you unscramble BATS, starting with BATS itself: 6 in Scrabble, 7 in Words With Friends. BATS has 3 anagrams here, BAST, STAB and TABS, scoring 6 like BATS itself. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 5 points, TAB, ABS and BAT among them. 4 letters: 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BATS by length: 4 with 4 letters, 8 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of BATS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with BA · ending in TS · all 4-letter words
What BATS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. BATS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 18) | 17 | 18 | 16 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: ATS. Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ST.
These 12 words take every letter of BATS plus a single extra one.