Hidden inside tool sit loot, loto, and tool, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 9 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loot, loto, and tool tie for the highest Scrabble score from tool at 4 points. The top 9 of 9 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in tool: two come from rearranging its letters, and tool itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tool. For points, the strongest plays are loot, loto, and tool — 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 tool turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lot and too. For points, the strongest plays are loo, lot, oot, and too — 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 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tool. If a familiar word is all you need, start with to. For points, the strongest plays are lo and to — 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 tool and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
tool 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 eight senses for tool. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 4 points on a Scrabble board:
tool is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tool unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loot, loto, and tool, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tool 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 tool produce 9 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.