balusters needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 549 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
balusters is the highest-scoring word from balusters, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 549 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in balusters — and it is balusters itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in balusters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abstruse, baluster, blasters and 5 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in balusters produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breasts, butlers, results, and subtler. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including breasts, butlers and subtler.
Unscrambling balusters turns up 101 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, abuses and alerts. For points, 54 words tie at 8 points, including ablest, abuses and barest.
There are 161 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in balusters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, abuse and alert. For points, 79 words tie at 7 points, including abler, abuse and bases.
Rearranging the letters in balusters produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, arts and bare. For points, 59 words tie at 6 points, including able, bare and bars.
Unscrambling balusters turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in balusters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in balusters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in balusters and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
balusters 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 3-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 balusters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
balusters is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing balusters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is balusters, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from balusters 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 balusters produce 549 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 101 six-letter words, 161 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.