tourists needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tourists is the highest-scoring word from tourists, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in tourists — and it is tourists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tourists produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tourist. For points, the strongest plays are outsits, suitors, tourist, and tsouris — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tourists turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trusts. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including trusts, outsit and rostis.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tourists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with riots, sorts and stirs. For points, 33 words tie at 5 points, including riots, sorts and stirs.
Rearranging the letters in tourists produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, riot and sirs. For points, 37 words tie at 4 points, including ours, riot and sirs.
Unscrambling tourists turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, our and out. For points, 22 words tie at 3 points, including its, our and out.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tourists plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tourists and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tourists 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 tourists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tourists is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tourists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tourists, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tourists 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 tourists produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.