restaurant needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
restaurant is the highest-scoring word from restaurant, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in restaurant — and it is restaurant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling restaurant turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arrestant and saturater, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restaurant. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are narrates, saturant, saturate and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in restaurant produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with natures, returns, and starter. For points, 32 words tie at 7 points, including natures, returns and starter.
Unscrambling restaurant turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, nature and rarest. For points, 64 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, nature and rarest.
There are 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restaurant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, aunts and earns. For points, 99 words tie at 5 points, including areas, aunts and earns.
Rearranging the letters in restaurant produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and area. For points, 101 words tie at 4 points, including ants, anus and area.
Unscrambling restaurant turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 60 words tie at 3 points, including ant, are and art.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restaurant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in restaurant plus one additional letter.
restaurant 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 2-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 restaurant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
restaurant is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restaurant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is restaurant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from restaurant 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 restaurant produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.