touristy needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
touristy is the highest-scoring word from touristy, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in touristy — and it is touristy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in touristy produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tourist. For points, the strongest play is tryouts — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling touristy turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stoury, trouty, trusty, and tryout, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touristy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with riots, rusty and story. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including rusty, story and yours.
Rearranging the letters in touristy produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, riot and sort. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including toys, your and rosy.
Unscrambling touristy turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, our and out. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including soy, toy and try.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touristy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and or. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in touristy 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.
touristy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in touristy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for touristy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
touristy is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing touristy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is touristy, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from touristy 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 touristy produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.