sputtered needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 267 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sputtered is the highest-scoring word from sputtered, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 267 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sputtered — and it is sputtered itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sputtered. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is puttered, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sputtered produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trusted. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including deputes, erupted and perdues.
Unscrambling sputtered turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, petted and purest. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including petted, depute and drupes.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sputtered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, purse and setup. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including speed, deeps and drupe.
Rearranging the letters in sputtered produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and dust. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling sputtered turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, pee and per. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sputtered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in sputtered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sputtered and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
sputtered 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.
sputtered is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sputtered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sputtered, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sputtered 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 sputtered produce 267 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.