Hidden inside sputter sit putters and sputter, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
putters and sputter tie for the highest Scrabble score from sputter at 9 points. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sputter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sputter 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 putters 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 sputter turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purest and truest. For points, the strongest plays are erupts, purest, and putter — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sputter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purse, setup, super, trust, and upset. For points, the strongest plays are erupt, prest, purse, putts, setup, sprue, spurt, 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 sputter produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pure, puts, reps, rest, step, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are pert, pest, pets, pure, purs, puts, putt, reps, 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 sputter turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet, put, rep, set, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are 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 sputter. 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.
Swap a single tile in sputter 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.
sputter 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 seven senses for sputter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sputter is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sputter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are putters and sputter, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sputter 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 sputter produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.