buttresses needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 230 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buttresses is the highest-scoring word from buttresses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 230 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in buttresses — and it is buttresses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttresses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are burettes, buttress, subseres, and subtests, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in buttresses produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with streets. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including betters, brutest and burette.
Unscrambling buttresses turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with better, bursts and butter. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including better, bursts and butter.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buttresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, bests and burst. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including beers, bests and burst.
Rearranging the letters in buttresses produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer, bees and best. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including beer, bees and best.
Unscrambling buttresses turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bet and bus. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including bee, bet and bus.
buttresses 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 three senses for buttresses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
buttresses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buttresses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is buttresses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from buttresses 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 buttresses produce 230 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.