Hidden inside attorns sit attorns and rattons, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attorns and rattons tie for the highest Scrabble score from attorns at 7 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in attorns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and attorns 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 attorns and rattons, 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 attorns turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attorn, nattos, ottars, ratton, stator, tantos, tarots, tortas, and tronas, 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attorns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, start, and toast. For points, the strongest plays are arson, natto, ottar, rants, ratos, roans, roast, rotas, santo, snort, sonar, sorta, start, stoat, tanto, tarns, taros, tarot, tarts, toast, toras, torta, torts, trans, trona, and trots — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in attorns produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, rats, sort, star, stat, and tans. For points, the strongest plays are ants, aros, arts, naos, nota, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, rant, rato, rats, roan, rota, rots, snot, soar, sora, sorn, sort, stan, star, stat, stoa, stot, tans, taos, tarn, taro, tars, tart, tats, tons, tora, torn, tors, tort, tosa, tost, tots, trot, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling attorns turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art, nor, not, ran, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ant, aro, ars, art, ats, att, nor, nos, not, oar, oat, ons, ora, ors, ort, ran, ras, rat, rot, san, sat, son, sot, tan, tao, tar, tas, tat, ton, tor, and tot — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attorns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are an, ar, as, at, na, no, on, or, os, so, ta, and to — each worth 2 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 attorns 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.
attorns 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 one sense for attorns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
attorns is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attorns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attorns and rattons, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from attorns 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 attorns produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.