Hidden inside robust sit robust and turbos, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
robust and turbos tie for the highest Scrabble score from robust at 8 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in robust: one comes from rearranging its letters, and robust 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 robust and turbos, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in robust. If a familiar word is all you need, start with burst and tours. For points, the strongest plays are borts, bouts, bruts, burst, tsubo, and turbo — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in robust produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bust, ours, robs, rubs, sort, sour, and tour. For points, the strongest plays are bort, bots, bout, bros, brut, burs, bust, buts, orbs, robs, rubs, sorb, stob, stub, tubs, and urbs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling robust turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, but, our, out, rob, rub, and sub. For points, the strongest plays are bos, bot, bro, bur, bus, but, orb, rob, rub, sob, sub, tub, and urb — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in robust. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest play is bo — 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 robust 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.
robust 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 four senses for robust. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
robust is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing robust unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are robust and turbos, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from robust 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 robust produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.