Hidden inside tabus sit abuts, tabus, tsuba and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abuts, tabus, tsuba and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tabus at 7 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in tabus: three come from rearranging its letters, and tabus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abuts, tabus, tsuba, and tubas, 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 tabus produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bats, bust, stab, tabs, and tubs. For points, the strongest plays are abut, bast, bats, bust, buts, stab, stub, suba, tabs, tabu, tuba, and tubs — 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 tabus turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, bus, but, sat, sub, tab, and tub. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bas, bat, bus, but, sab, sub, tab, and tub — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tabus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — 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 tabus and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
tabus 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.
tabus is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tabus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abuts, tabus, tsuba, and tubas, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tabus 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 tabus produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.