Hidden inside tribune sit tribune and turbine, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tribune and turbine tie for the highest Scrabble score from tribune at 9 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tribune: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tribune itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tribune and turbine, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tribune turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brunet, bunter, burnet, and burnie, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribune. If a familiar word is all you need, start with burnt, tribe, urine, and uteri. For points, the strongest plays are biner, biter, brent, brine, bruin, bruit, brunt, brute, buret, burin, burnt, rebut, tribe, and tuber — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tribune produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bent, bite, burn, rent, ruin, tire, and true. For points, the strongest plays are bent, bier, bine, bint, bite, bren, brie, brin, brit, brut, bunt, burn, bute, rube, tube, and unbe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tribune turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bit, bun, but, net, nut, and rib. For points, the strongest plays are ben, bet, bin, bit, bun, bur, but, neb, nib, nub, reb, rib, rub, tub, and urb — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribune. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tribune and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tribune 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for tribune. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tribune is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tribune unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tribune and turbine, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tribune 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 tribune produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.