Hidden inside roots sit roost, roots, rotos and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
roost, roots, rotos and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from roots at 5 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in roots: four come from rearranging its letters, and roots itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roots. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including roots, roost and rotos.
Rearranging the letters in roots produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with root and sort. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including root, sort and oots.
Swap a single tile in roots and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
roots 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in roots carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for roots. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
roots is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing roots unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are roost, roots, rotos, toros, and torso, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from roots 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 roots produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.