Hidden inside krauts sit krauts and kurtas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
krauts and kurtas tie for the highest Scrabble score from krauts at 10 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in krauts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and krauts 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 krauts and kurtas, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in krauts. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are karst, karts, kraut and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in krauts produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, rats, star, and task. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including task, arks and auks.
Unscrambling krauts turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, ask, rat, and sat. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and auk.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in krauts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in krauts 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.
krauts 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 1-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 krauts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
krauts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing krauts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are krauts and kurtas, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from krauts 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 krauts produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.