Hidden inside abuts sit abuts, tabus, tsuba and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BUAST, SUBAT or SATBU and you get the same 5 letters as ABUTS: so the words from ABUTS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
abuts, tabus, tsuba and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from abuts at 7 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in abuts: three come from rearranging its letters, and abuts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abuts, tabus, tsuba, and tubas, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abuts produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bats, bust and stab. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including bats, bust and stab.
Unscrambling abuts turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, bus and but. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including bat, bus and but.
Swap a single tile in abuts 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.
abuts 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 abuts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
abuts is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abuts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abuts, tabus, tsuba, and tubas, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abuts 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 abuts produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.