Hidden inside buttoners sit buttoners, obstruent, and rebuttons, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 422 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buttoners, obstruent, and rebuttons tie for the highest Scrabble score from buttoners at 11 points. The top 10 of 422 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in buttoners: two come from rearranging its letters, and buttoners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buttoners, obstruent, and rebuttons, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttoners. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are burstone, buttoner, and rebutton, 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 buttoners produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buttons. For points, the strongest plays are bettors, botnets, bournes, brunets, brutest, bunters, burnets, burtons, butters, buttons, obtuser, sorbent, subrent, subtone, turbots, unrobes, and unsober — 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 buttoners turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boners, butter, button, rotten, routes, and truest. For points, the strongest plays are bentos, betons, bettor, boners, botnet, bourne, bourns, bourse, brents, brunet, brunts, brutes, bunter, burets, burnet, burton, buster, buteos, butter, buttes, button, obtest, obtuse, rebuts, robust, sorbet, strobe, subnet, suborn, tubers, turbos, turbot, and unrobe — 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 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttoners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boner, bones, bonus, borne, burns, burnt, and burst. For points, the strongest plays are bento, bents, besot, beton, boner, bones, bonus, bores, borne, borts, bosun, botts, bourn, bouse, bouts, brens, brent, brose, brunt, brute, bruts, bunts, buret, burns, burnt, burse, burst, buteo, butes, butte, butts, ebons, rebus, rebut, robes, rubes, sober, suber, tsubo, tuber, tubes, and turbo — 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 buttoners produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bent, best, bets, bone, bore, born, and buns. For points, the strongest plays are bens, bent, best, bets, bone, bore, born, bort, bots, bott, bout, bren, bros, brut, buns, bunt, burn, burs, bust, bute, buts, butt, ebon, nebs, nobs, nubs, obes, orbs, rebs, robe, robs, rube, rubs, snob, snub, sorb, stob, stub, tube, tubs, unbe, and urbs — 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 buttoners turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bun, bus, but, net, nor, and not. For points, the strongest plays are ben, bes, bet, bos, bot, bro, bun, bur, bus, but, neb, nob, nub, obe, orb, reb, rob, rub, sob, sub, tub, and urb — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttoners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, no, on, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in buttoners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buttoners 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.
buttoners 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.
buttoners is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buttoners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buttoners, obstruent, and rebuttons, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buttoners 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 buttoners produce 422 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.