Hidden inside tournedos sit outsnored and tournedos, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 464 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outsnored and tournedos tie for the highest Scrabble score from tournedos at 10 points. The top 10 of 464 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tournedos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tournedos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outsnored and tournedos, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tournedos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roundest. For points, the strongest plays are duotones, outdoers, roundest, tonsured, unrooted, and unsorted — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tournedos produces 25 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detours, dourest, duotone, enduros, orotund, outdoer, outdoes, outdone, outrode, redouts, resound, rodents, roosted, rousted, snooted, snorted, snouted, sounder, undoers, and undrest, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tournedos turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donors, donuts, nudest, nursed, rodeos, rooted, and rounds. For points, the strongest plays are detour, donors, donuts, doters, douser, drones, duster, enduro, nodose, nodous, noosed, nudest, nursed, odeons, odours, ousted, redons, redout, rodent, rodeos, rondes, rondos, roosed, rooted, rotund, rounds, roused, routed, rudest, rusted, snored, sonder, sooted, sorned, sorted, soured, stoned, stored, stound, strode, stroud, sunder, tendus, tondos, toured, toused, trends, turned, undoer, undoes, untrod, and uredos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 123 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tournedos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donor, donut, doors, nerds, notes, nuder, and nurse. For points, the strongest plays are dents, doers, doest, donor, donut, doors, dores, doser, doter, dotes, douse, douts, drest, drone, druse, duets, dunes, dunts, dures, durns, duros, durst, nerds, nodes, nodus, nosed, noted, nuder, nudes, nurds, odeon, odors, odour, ordos, outdo, outed, redon, redos, rends, resod, rodeo, rodes, ronde, rondo, roods, rosed, round, snood, sonde, sored, sound, stood, sudor, tends, tendu, tondo, toned, trend, trode, trued, tuned, turds, udons, under, undos, and uredo — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tournedos produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerd, nest, nets, nose, note, nude, and nuts. For points, the strongest plays are nerd, node, nods, nude, nurd, odes, odor, ordo, ouds, redo, reds, rend, rode, rods, rood, rude, rued, send, sned, sord, stud, sued, dens, dent, doer, does, done, dons, door, dore, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, dour, dout, dues, duet, dune, duns, dunt, duos, dure, durn, duro, dust, ends, surd, teds, tend, tods, toed, trod, turd, udon, udos, unde, undo, urds, and used — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tournedos turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due, end, net, nor, not, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are den, doe, don, dor, dos, dot, due, dun, duo, eds, end, nod, ode, ods, oud, red, rod, sod, ted, tod, udo, and urd — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tournedos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tournedos plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tournedos 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.
tournedos 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 2-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 tournedos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tournedos is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tournedos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outsnored and tournedos, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tournedos 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 tournedos produce 464 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 123 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.