Hidden inside tautens sit attunes, nutates, tautens and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attunes, nutates, tautens and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tautens at 7 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in tautens: four come from rearranging its letters, and tautens 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 attunes, nutates, tautens, tetanus, and unstate, 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 tautens turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statue. For points, the strongest plays are astute, attune, nutate, statue, taunts, tauten, and unseat — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tautens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, state, stunt, taste, tents, tunas, and tunes. For points, the strongest plays are antes, aunts, etnas, nates, neats, netts, saute, stane, state, stent, stunt, sutta, taste, tates, taunt, tauts, teats, tents, testa, tunas, tunes, unset, and usnea — 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 tautens produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, aunt, east, eats, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are anes, ante, ants, anus, ates, aunt, east, eats, etas, etna, naes, neat, nest, nets, nett, nuts, sane, sate, seat, sent, seta, sett, stan, stat, stet, stun, suet, tans, tase, tate, tats, taus, taut, teas, teat, tens, tent, test, tets, tuna, tune, tuns, tuts, utas, and utes — 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 tautens turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, net, nut, sat, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ane, ant, ate, ats, att, eat, eau, ens, est, eta, nae, net, nus, nut, sae, san, sat, sau, sea, sen, set, sue, sun, tae, tan, tas, tat, tau, tea, ten, tes, tet, tun, tut, uns, use, uta, ute, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tautens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, as, at, en, es, et, na, ne, nu, ta, te, un, 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.
Swap a single tile in tautens 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.
tautens 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 two senses for tautens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tautens is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tautens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attunes, nutates, tautens, tetanus, and unstate, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tautens 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 tautens produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.