sultanas needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sultanas is the highest-scoring word from sultanas, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in sultanas — and it is sultanas itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sultanas produces 3 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 assault, sultana, and sultans, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sultanas turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alants, aslant, lauans and 7 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sultanas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, lasts and salsa. For points, 31 words tie at 5 points, including aunts, lasts and salsa.
Rearranging the letters in sultanas produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 39 words tie at 4 points, including ants, anus and aunt.
Unscrambling sultanas turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and nut. For points, 27 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ass and nut.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sultanas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
Swap a single tile in sultanas 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.
sultanas 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for sultanas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
sultanas is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sultanas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sultanas, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sultanas 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 sultanas produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.