Hidden inside tabours sit abortus, robusta, rubatos and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abortus, robusta, rubatos and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tabours at 9 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in tabours: three come from rearranging its letters, and tabours 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 abortus, robusta, rubatos, and tabours, 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 tabours turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, boarts, broast, robust, rubato, tabors, tabour, and turbos — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tabours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, autos, boats, brats, burst, and roast. For points, the strongest plays are abort, about, abuts, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, borts, botas, bouts, brats, bruts, buras, bursa, burst, sabot, tabor, tabus, tsuba, tsubo, tubas, and turbo — 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 tabours produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto, bars, bats, boat, bras, and brat. For points, the strongest plays are abut, arbs, bars, bast, bats, boar, boas, boat, bora, bort, bota, bots, bout, bras, brat, bros, brut, bura, burs, bust, buts, obas, orbs, robs, rubs, soba, sorb, stab, stob, stub, suba, tabs, tabu, tuba, tubs, and urbs — 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 tabours turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, bar, bat, bra, bus, but, and our. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bar, bas, bat, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, bur, bus, but, oba, orb, rob, rub, sab, sob, sub, tab, tub, and urb — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tabours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — 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 tabours 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.
tabours 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 one sense for tabours. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tabours is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tabours unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abortus, robusta, rubatos, and tabours, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tabours 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 tabours produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.