sauerkraut needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sauerkraut is the highest-scoring word from sauerkraut, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in sauerkraut — and it is sauerkraut itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sauerkraut produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are karates, katsura, kraters, and starker, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sauerkraut turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, karate, rarest, and uterus. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including karate, karats and krater.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sauerkraut. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, rates and skate. For points, 26 words tie at 9 points, including skate, steak and takes.
Rearranging the letters in sauerkraut produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arts and ears. For points, 27 words tie at 8 points, including sake, take and task.
Unscrambling sauerkraut turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ask. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and auk.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sauerkraut. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in sauerkraut plus one additional letter.
sauerkraut 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 sauerkraut. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
sauerkraut is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sauerkraut unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sauerkraut, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sauerkraut 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 sauerkraut produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.