Hidden inside butanone sit butanone and nanotube, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
butanone and nanotube tie for the highest Scrabble score from butanone at 10 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in butanone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and butanone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are butanone and nanotube, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling butanone produces exactly one seven-letter word: tonneau. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling butanone turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bannet, bonnet, butane, and unbent, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in butanone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about. For points, the strongest plays are about, baton, beano, beaut, bento, beton, bonne, buteo, tabun, tubae, and unban — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in butanone produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, bean, beat, bent, boat, and bone. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abut, bane, bate, bean, beat, beau, bent, beta, boat, bone, bota, bout, buna, bunn, bunt, bute, ebon, nabe, tabu, tuba, tube, and unbe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling butanone turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, ban, bat, bet, bun, and but. For points, the strongest plays are bae, ban, bat, ben, bet, boa, bot, bun, but, nab, neb, nob, nub, oba, obe, tab, and tub — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in butanone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, be, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 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 butanone and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
butanone 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 4-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 butanone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
butanone is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing butanone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are butanone and nanotube, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from butanone 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 butanone produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.