Hidden inside salutes sit salutes and taluses, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
salutes and taluses tie for the highest Scrabble score from salutes at 7 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in salutes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and salutes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are salutes and taluses, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling salutes turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steals. For points, the strongest plays are leasts, salute, saults, sautes, slates, stales, steals, tassel, teslas, tussal, and tussle — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in salutes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, least, sales, salts, seals, seats, and steal. For points, the strongest plays are asset, easts, lases, lasts, least, lusts, lutea, lutes, sales, salts, salut, sates, sauls, sault, saute, seals, seats, setal, slate, slats, slues, sluts, stale, steal, stela, suets, taels, tales, talus, tases, tasse, teals, tesla, and tules — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in salutes produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, last, late, less, lets, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ates, east, eats, ests, etas, lase, lass, last, late, lats, latu, leas, less, lest, lets, lues, lust, lute, sale, sals, salt, sate, saul, seal, seas, seat, sels, seta, sets, slat, slue, slut, sues, suet, tael, tale, tase, tass, taus, teal, teas, tela, tels, tule, uses, utas, and utes — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling salutes turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, eat, let, sat, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ass, ate, ats, eat, eau, els, ess, est, eta, las, lat, lea, let, leu, sae, sal, sat, sau, sea, sel, set, sue, sus, tae, tas, tau, tea, tel, tes, use, uta, ute, and uts — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in salutes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, ta, te, us, and ut — each worth 2 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 salutes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
salutes 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 nine senses for salutes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
salutes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing salutes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are salutes and taluses, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from salutes 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 salutes produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.