Hidden inside debutante sit debutante and unabetted, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
debutante and unabetted tie for the highest Scrabble score from debutante at 12 points. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in debutante: one comes from rearranging its letters, and debutante 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 debutante and unabetted, each worth 12 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 debutante. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are battened and debutant, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in debutante produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abetted, abutted, and unbated, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling debutante turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, beaten, and debate. For points, the strongest plays are batted, beaned, betted, bunted, butted, debate, and tabued — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debutante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten and tuned. For points, the strongest plays are baned, bated, bundt, daube, debut, and tubed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in debutante produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, bade, band, bean, beat, been, and bend. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, band, baud, bead, bedu, bend, bund, daub, and debt — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling debutante turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, ate, bad, ban, bat, and bed. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bud, dab, deb, and dub — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debutante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — 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 debutante plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in debutante 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.
debutante 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for debutante. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
debutante is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing debutante unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are debutante and unabetted, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from debutante 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 debutante produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.