Hidden inside butters sit brutest and butters, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brutest and butters tie for the highest Scrabble score from butters at 9 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in butters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and butters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brutest and butters, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling butters turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with butter and truest. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including butter, brutes and burets.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in butters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with burst, butts, trust, and tubes. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including burst, butts and tubes.
Rearranging the letters in butters produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets and bust. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including best, bets and bust.
Unscrambling butters turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bus and but. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including bet, bus and but.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in butters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in butters and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
butters 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for butters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
butters is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing butters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brutest and butters, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from butters 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 butters produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.