Hidden inside batou is one standout: about, a five-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
BATOU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ABOUT (adverb), approximately, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
about is the highest-scoring word from batou, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling batou produces exactly one five-letter word: about. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in batou 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is about, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from batou 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 batou produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.