thesaurus needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 274 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
thesaurus is the highest-scoring word from thesaurus, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 274 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in thesaurus — and it is thesaurus itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thesaurus produces exactly one eight-letter word: hauteurs. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in thesaurus produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trashes. For points, the strongest plays are hauteur, rashest, and trashes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling thesaurus turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, hearts, rashes, rushes, shares, stares, and surest. For points, the strongest plays are earths, hastes, haters, hauter, hearts, hursts, hussar, rashes, rhesus, rhuses, rushes, shares, sharts, shears, shuras, shutes, surahs, tushes, tussah, tusseh, and ushers — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thesaurus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, earth, hates, hears, heart, heats, and hurts. For points, the strongest plays are ashes, earth, haets, hares, harts, haste, hater, hates, haute, hears, heart, heats, hests, hurst, hurts, rathe, rheas, ruths, share, shart, shear, sheas, shura, shute, shuts, stash, surah, tahrs, trash, and usher — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thesaurus produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, hate, and hats. For points, the strongest plays are eath, eths, haes, haet, hare, hart, hast, hate, hats, haut, hear, heat, hers, hest, hets, hues, hurt, huts, rash, rath, resh, rhea, rhus, rush, ruth, sash, sesh, shat, shea, shes, shut, tahr, thae, thru, thus, and tush — 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 thesaurus turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ash, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, her, hes, het, hue, hut, rah, sha, she, and the — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thesaurus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, sh, and uh — each worth 5 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 thesaurus 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.
thesaurus 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 thesaurus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
thesaurus is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thesaurus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is thesaurus, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from thesaurus 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 thesaurus produce 274 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.