Hidden inside tribunals sit tribunals and turbinals, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 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.
tribunals and turbinals tie for the highest Scrabble score from tribunals at 11 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 tribunals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tribunals 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 tribunals and turbinals, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tribunal, turbinal, and urbanist, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tribunals produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rituals and urinals. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including brisant, burials and inburst.
Unscrambling tribunals turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brains, brutal and insult. For points, 29 words tie at 8 points, including brains, brutal and ablins.
There are 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, bails and baits. For points, 56 words tie at 7 points, including bails, baits and barns.
Rearranging the letters in tribunals produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and anus. For points, 58 words tie at 6 points, including bail, bait and bans.
Unscrambling tribunals turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 29 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bar and bat.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tribunals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tribunals 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.
tribunals 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 tribunals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tribunals is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tribunals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tribunals and turbinals, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tribunals 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 tribunals produce 464 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.