Hidden inside buttering sit buttering and rebutting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 229 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buttering and rebutting tie for the highest Scrabble score from buttering at 12 points. The top 10 of 229 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in buttering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buttering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buttering and rebutting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is unbitter, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in buttering produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with betting and tribute. For points, the strongest plays are betting, bruting, and butting — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buttering turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bitten, bitter, butter, gutter, and urgent. For points, the strongest plays are begirt, binger, and tubing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, begun, being, bring, burnt, tiger, and tribe. For points, the strongest plays are begin, begun, being, binge, bring, brung, and giber — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in buttering produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bent, bite, burn, butt, rent, ring, and ruin. For points, the strongest plays are berg, bing, brig, bung, burg, gibe, and grub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buttering turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, bet, big, bit, bug, bun, and but. For points, the strongest plays are beg, big, bug, and gib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — 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 buttering 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.
buttering 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.
buttering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buttering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buttering and rebutting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buttering 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 buttering produce 229 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.