Hidden inside tribunal sit tribunal and turbinal, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tribunal and turbinal tie for the highest Scrabble score from tribunal at 10 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tribunal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tribunal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tribunal and turbinal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tribunal turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brutal, ritual, and urinal. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including brutal, burial and nutbar.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brain, built and burnt. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including brain, built and burnt.
Rearranging the letters in tribunal produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, bail and bait. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including bail, bait and barn.
Unscrambling tribunal turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bar and bat.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tribunal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tribunal 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.
tribunal 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 4-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 tribunal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tribunal is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tribunal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tribunal and turbinal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tribunal 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 tribunal produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.