Hidden inside consulter sit consulter and reconsult, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 534 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
consulter and reconsult tie for the highest Scrabble score from consulter at 11 points. The top 10 of 534 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in consulter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and consulter 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 consulter and reconsult, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in consulter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counters. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including counters, clotures and clouters.
Rearranging the letters in consulter produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closure, consult, and counter. For points, 34 words tie at 9 points, including closure, consult and counter.
Unscrambling consulter turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clones, closer and closet. For points, 59 words tie at 8 points, including clones, closer and closet.
There are 147 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in consulter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, clone and close. For points, 69 words tie at 7 points, including cents, clone and close.
Rearranging the letters in consulter produces 149 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets and lose. For points, 44 words tie at 6 points, including once, cent and clue.
Unscrambling consulter turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and cut. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including con, cue and cut.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in consulter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on and or. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including no, on and or.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in consulter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in consulter 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.
consulter 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
consulter is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing consulter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are consulter and reconsult, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from consulter 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 consulter produce 534 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 147 five-letter words, 149 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.