tartuffes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tartuffes is the highest-scoring word from tartuffes, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tartuffes — and it is tartuffes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartuffes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tartuffe, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tartuffes produces 9 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 restaff, restuff, staffer and 3 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tartuffes turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster, fatter and statue. For points, the strongest plays are ruffes, suffer, truffe, and tuffet — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartuffes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates and fears. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including staff, stuff and raffs.
Rearranging the letters in tartuffes produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including effs, raff and ruff.
Unscrambling tartuffes turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aff and eff — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartuffes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tartuffes 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.
tartuffes 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 1-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 tartuffes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
tartuffes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tartuffes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tartuffes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tartuffes 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 tartuffes produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.