Hidden inside tribunate sit tribunate and turbinate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 323 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tribunate and turbinate tie for the highest Scrabble score from tribunate at 11 points. The top 10 of 323 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tribunate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tribunate 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 tribunate and turbinate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are braunite, intubate, unbitter, and urbanite, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tribunate produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tribute and urinate. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including tribute, abutter and battier.
Unscrambling tribunate turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bitten, bitter, butter, and nature. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including bitten, bitter and butter.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brain, burnt and train. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including brain, burnt and tribe.
Rearranging the letters in tribunate produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, bait and bare. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bare and barn.
Unscrambling tribunate turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bar and bat.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tribunate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tribunate 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.
tribunate 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
tribunate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tribunate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tribunate and turbinate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tribunate 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 tribunate produce 323 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.