Hidden inside buttoner sit buttoner and rebutton, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buttoner and rebutton tie for the highest Scrabble score from buttoner at 10 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in buttoner: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buttoner itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buttoner and rebutton, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling buttoner turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with butter, button, and rotten. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including butter, button and bettor.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttoner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boner, borne and burnt. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including boner, borne and burnt.
Rearranging the letters in buttoner produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bent, bone and bore. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including bent, bone and bore.
Unscrambling buttoner turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bun and but. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including bet, bun and but.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttoner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in buttoner plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buttoner and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
buttoner 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
buttoner is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buttoner unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buttoner and rebutton, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buttoner 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 buttoner produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.