Hidden inside tartarous sit saturator and tartarous, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
saturator and tartarous tie for the highest Scrabble score from tartarous at 9 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tartarous: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tartarous itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are saturator and tartarous, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tartarous 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 auroras, tartars, and trustor, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tartarous turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aortas, attars, aurora, ottars, outsat, rostra, sartor, stator, strata, tarots, tartar, tatars, tortas, trouts, and tutors, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartarous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, roast, start, toast, tours, and trust. For points, the strongest plays are aorta, arras, asura, attar, aurar, auras, autos, ottar, outta, ratos, roars, roast, rotas, roust, routs, sorta, start, stoat, stour, stout, strut, sturt, surra, sutra, sutta, taros, tarot, tarts, tatar, tauts, toast, toras, torrs, torta, torts, torus, tours, touts, trots, trout, trust, turrs, and tutor — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tartarous produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto, ours, rats, sort, sour, and star. For points, the strongest plays are aros, arts, aura, auto, oars, oast, oats, orra, orts, osar, ours, oust, outa, outs, rato, rats, roar, rota, rots, rout, rust, ruts, soar, sora, sort, sour, star, stat, stoa, stot, sura, taos, taro, tars, tart, tats, taus, taut, tora, torr, tors, tort, tosa, tost, tots, tour, tout, trot, trou, tsar, turr, tuts, ursa, and utas — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tartarous turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, our, out, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aas, aro, ars, art, ats, att, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, our, out, ras, rat, rot, rut, sat, sau, sot, sou, tao, tar, tas, tat, tau, tor, tot, tut, uta, and uts — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartarous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ar, as, at, or, os, so, ta, to, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tartarous plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tartarous and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tartarous is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
tartarous is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tartarous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are saturator and tartarous, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tartarous 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 tartarous produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.