Hidden inside buttered sit buttered and rebutted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buttered and rebutted tie for the highest Scrabble score from buttered at 11 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in buttered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buttered 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 buttered and rebutted, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling buttered turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with better and butter. For points, the strongest plays are betted, bruted, and butted — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breed. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including breed, brede and debur.
Rearranging the letters in buttered produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer, bred and butt. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including bred, debt and bedu.
Unscrambling buttered turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bud, deb, and dub — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in buttered 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.
buttered 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.
buttered is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buttered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buttered and rebutted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buttered 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 buttered produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.