subunits needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
subunits is the highest-scoring word from subunits, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in subunits — and it is subunits itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subunits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with busts, suits, and units. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including busts, bints and bunts.
Rearranging the letters in subunits produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bits, buns and bust. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including bits, buns and bust.
Unscrambling subunits turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bit, bun and bus. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including bit, bun and bus.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subunits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is bi — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in subunits plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in subunits and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
subunits 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 4-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 subunits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
subunits is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing subunits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is subunits, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from subunits 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 subunits produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.