Hidden inside tentau sit attune, nutate, and tauten, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TEANUT, ATTENU or TANTUE and you get the same 6 letters as TENTAU: so the words from TENTAU listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
TENTAU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ATTUNE, NUTATE and TAUTEN.
attune, nutate, and tauten tie for the highest Scrabble score from tentau at 6 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tentau turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attune, nutate, and tauten, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tentau produces exactly one five-letter word: taunt. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tentau produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, neat and tent. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including aunt, neat and tent.
Unscrambling tentau turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, 21 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ate and eat.
Swap a single tile in tentau and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attune, nutate, and tauten, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tentau 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 tentau produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.