Unscramble ABSTAIN and you have 132 words, ABSTAIN itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. ABSTAIN as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
NASBIAT unscrambles to ABSTAIN: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for sabinat, abstina, bantisa, tainsba, aatbins, astabin, basanit, absiant, bainats or bainsta? They use the same letters as ABSTAIN, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ABSTAIN split into 1 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 24 with 5, 46 with 4, 41 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Among 46 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ABSTAIN, the top score is 6, reached by 21. ANTI, BITS and TABS are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of ABSTAIN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with AB · ending in IN · all 7-letter words
What ABSTAIN means, then the 6 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. ABSTAIN 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABSTAIN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 132) | 96 | 130 | 91 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BANIAS, BASANT, ABSIT, BAISA, BANIA, BANTS, BASAN, BASTA, BASTI, TABIS, BANT, BIST and 24 more, 36 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TIANS, STAN, TIAN, ATS and SAN, 5 in all. Not in Scrabble UK: BINTS and BINT, 2 in all.
These 7 words take every letter of ABSTAIN plus a single extra one.