Hidden inside texture sit texture and urtexte, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TUXETRE, RTXTEEU or ERXTUET and you get the same 7 letters as TEXTURE: so the words from TEXTURE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
texture and urtexte tie for the highest Scrabble score from texture at 14 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in texture: one comes from rearranging its letters, and texture 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 texture and urtexte, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in texture. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exert, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in texture plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in texture 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.
texture 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 five senses for texture. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
texture is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing texture unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are texture and urtexte, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from texture 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 texture produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.