Hidden inside marabouts sit marabouts and tambouras, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 341 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marabouts and tambouras tie for the highest Scrabble score from marabouts at 13 points. The top 10 of 341 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in marabouts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marabouts 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 marabouts and tambouras, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marabouts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are marabous, marabout, tamboura and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marabouts produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with traumas. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including marabou, subatom and tambour.
Unscrambling marabouts turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, trauma, and tumors. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including abomas, rumbas and sambar.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marabouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about and atoms. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including aboma, ambos and barms.
Rearranging the letters in marabouts produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and atom. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including bums, mobs and ambo.
Unscrambling marabouts turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, art and bam. For points, the strongest plays are bam, bum, and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marabouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ab.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in marabouts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in marabouts 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.
marabouts 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 marabouts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
marabouts is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marabouts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marabouts and tambouras, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marabouts 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 marabouts produce 341 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.