Hidden inside aunts sit aunts and tunas, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aunts and tunas tie for the highest Scrabble score from aunts at 5 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in aunts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aunts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: aunts and tunas, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aunts produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, aunt, nuts, tans, and tuna. For points, the strongest plays are ants, anus, aunt, nuts, stan, stun, tans, taus, tuna, tuns, and utas — 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 aunts turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, nut, sat, sun, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are ant, ats, nus, nut, san, sat, sau, sun, tan, tas, tau, tun, uns, uta, and uts — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aunts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are an, as, at, na, nu, ta, un, us, and ut — 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 aunts and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
aunts 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 2-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 aunts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
aunts is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aunts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aunts and tunas, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aunts 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 aunts produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.