buttery needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buttery is the highest-scoring word from buttery, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in buttery — and it is buttery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling buttery produces exactly one six-letter word: butter. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buyer. For points, the strongest plays are butty, buyer, and rebuy — each 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 buttery produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bury, butt, true, and tube. For points, the strongest plays are bury, byre, byte, and ruby — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buttery turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, but, buy, bye, rub, try, and tub. For points, the strongest plays are bey, buy, and bye — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and by. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in buttery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buttery 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.
buttery 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for buttery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
buttery is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buttery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is buttery, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from buttery 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 buttery produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.