butties needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
butties is the highest-scoring word from butties, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in butties — and it is butties itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling butties turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buttes and tubist, 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in butties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bites, butts, suite, and tubes. For points, the strongest plays are bites, bitts, butes, butte, butts, and tubes — 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 butties produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets, bite, bits, bust, butt, and site. For points, the strongest plays are best, bets, bise, bite, bits, bitt, bust, bute, buts, butt, stub, tube, and tubs — 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 butties turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bit, bus, but, its, set, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are bes, bet, bis, bit, bus, but, sib, sub, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in butties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, it, and us. 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 butties 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.
butties 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 one sense for butties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
butties is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing butties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is butties, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from butties 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 butties produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.