Hidden inside jaunts sit jaunts and juntas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
jaunts and juntas tie for the highest Scrabble score from jaunts at 13 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in jaunts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and jaunts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are jaunts and juntas, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jaunts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts and tunas. For points, the strongest plays are jaunt and junta — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in jaunts produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, aunt, just, nuts, tans, and tuna. For points, the strongest plays are just and juts — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling jaunts turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, nut, sat, sun, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are jun, jus, jut, and taj — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jaunts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are an, as, at, na, nu, ta, un, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in jaunts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in jaunts and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
jaunts 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for jaunts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
jaunts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing jaunts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are jaunts and juntas, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from jaunts 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 jaunts produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.