buttinsky needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buttinsky is the highest-scoring word from buttinsky, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in buttinsky — and it is buttinsky itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttinsky. If a familiar word is all you need, start with butts, kitty and knits. For points, the strongest plays are kitty and tusky — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in buttinsky produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bits, buns and bust. For points, the strongest plays are inky and yuks — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling buttinsky turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bit, bun and bus. For points, the strongest plays are sky and yuk — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttinsky. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, in and is. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in buttinsky 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.
buttinsky 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 buttinsky. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
buttinsky is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buttinsky unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is buttinsky, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from buttinsky 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 buttinsky produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.