Hidden inside sputterer sit putterers and sputterer, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
putterers and sputterer tie for the highest Scrabble score from sputterer at 11 points. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in sputterer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sputterer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are putterers and sputterer, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sputterer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are putterer and upsetter, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sputterer produces 17 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 pertest, peruser, petters, prester, pretest, puttees, putters, reputes, spurter, and sputter, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sputterer turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purest, street, and truest. For points, the strongest plays are erupts, perter, peruse, pester, peters, petter, preset, purees, purest, purser, puttee, putter, repute, rupees, and septet — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sputterer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purer, purse, setup, steer, super, surer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are erupt, peers, peres, perse, peter, prees, prese, prest, puree, purer, purrs, purse, putts, rupee, setup, speer, spree, sprue, spurt, steep, strep, stupe, super, turps, and upset — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sputterer produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pets, pure, puts, reps, rest, and step. For points, the strongest plays are peer, pees, pere, pert, pest, pets, pree, pure, purr, purs, puts, putt, reps, seep, sept, spue, spur, step, supe, tups, and urps — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sputterer turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, pet, put, rep, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, pet, pst, pur, pus, put, rep, sup, tup, ups, and urp — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sputterer. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sputterer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sputterer 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.
sputterer 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.
sputterer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sputterer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are putterers and sputterer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sputterer 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 sputterer produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.