Hidden inside marabout sit marabout and tamboura, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marabout and tamboura tie for the highest Scrabble score from marabout at 12 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in marabout: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marabout itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are marabout and tamboura, 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 marabout produces 3 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 marabou, tambour, and tambura, 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 marabout turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trauma. For points, the strongest play is tambur — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marabout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, and tumor. For points, the strongest plays are aboma, rumba, and umbra — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in marabout produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, auto, boat, brat, and tour. For points, the strongest plays are ambo, barm, tomb, and umbo — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling marabout turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, art, bam, bar, bat, bra, and bum. For points, the strongest plays are bam, bum, and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marabout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, or, to, and um. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, bo, ma, mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in marabout and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
marabout 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 marabout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
marabout is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marabout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marabout and tamboura, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marabout 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 marabout produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.